Plum Health

MAY 22, 2023

Employers are increasingly finding that DPC offers a personalized doctor-patient relationship, comprehensive preventive care, and overall cost savings. Easy access and relationship-driven care minimize long-term healthcare expenses and cut down on unnecessary urgent care and emergency room visits. Sadly, up to 80% do not.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care PCP PCP Insurance 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Rather, most of us live and make decisions in relationship to one another. Emily is a bioethicist in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. And as we all know, for many people there comes a time where they are no longer able to make their own medical decisions. Eric: Lynn or Anne?

Family 97

Family Families Patient-Centered IT 97

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

nursing homes grapple with serious illnesses, and roughly half experience dementia. The reason that you’re in a nursing home is because you have some mix of serious illness and multimorbidity, usually functional impairments. And assisted living doesn’t offer the same level of medical supportive services as nursing homes.

Referral 78

Referral Nurse Practitioner Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

But if they’re not going to live another 20 years, then there’s no point in giving them the extra medication for lowering their A1C. They wanted time to prepare, to get their spiritual house in order, to get right with God, to think about moving near to the grandkids, to get their finances in order, to prepare their wills.

IT 95

IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Disruptive events are medical, surgical. I think part of this does stem from a clinical experience and also some of the theoretical models that have evolved around serious illness, you know, to think specifically about dementia. And there is this bidirectional relationship between wealth and health shocks. And health shocks.

Illness 93

Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 93