GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

As you can imagine, get referrals from healthcare workers, emergency departments, primary care, cancer care hospital, you know, internal medicine to our service. It might have to do with a sensitivity around mental health. Government is not the 51st state. And that’s about half of our referrals.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

Lingsheng (and I) recently published studies on this in JAMA Internal Medicine , and JAGS. It’s both institutionalized racism where there are policies and practices by corporations, by government that create inequality. If clinicians ask about it, safety, mental health, well being, then I think that helps alerts elders.

Mental Health 116

Mental Health Community Screening IT 116

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. Well, if you are like me, you’ve probably heard of these programs but are at a loss to know exactly what they do. To Susan’s point. Older people don’t live in the Offices for the Aging.

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. So if you think about dementia, it’s on the intersection of aging stigma and mental health stigma. You said this journey started for you back in what? Malaz: 1999, my friend.

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Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125

GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

NIH study about long COVID published the day before in Annals of Internal Medicine. Part of our recovery is mental health and seeing each other’s faces. And their death rate was so high during Omicron because they had distrust to the vaccine and distrust to the government. Our World in Data COVID graphs.

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Vaccination IT Hospital Management 100