GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Management of chronic pain in the elderly: focus on transdermal buprenorphine. And how am I going to manage their pain? And then part of our role as folks in palliative care who as Katie mentioned, really try to help folks manage distress around serious illness. Two great videos on buprenorphine initiation. Transcript.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 102

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Why the field is moving away from prescribing methadone to bupenorphine; how to manage patients prescribed methadone for opioid use disorder who then develop serious and painful illness – should we/can we split up the once daily dosing to achieve better pain control? For those individuals, how do you think about that?

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Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 72

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

So, how can we improve palliative care for individuals in nursing homes? And so I tried to get her actually to pain management, and I couldn’t. Pain management wouldn’t come to the facility, and she was bedbound. And so it really got me interested in how we improve symptom management. Cognitive impairment.

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Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

It sets space between us and the individuals we’re trying to take care of. Healthcare, just the way healthcare is structured, that’s not something that’s feasible unless there’s a specific symptom management need that allows for more care, but just to provide simple care doesn’t exist.

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Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

If you own and operate a nursing home and you’re taking people in, and you’re admitting new residents, what’s their accountability for how they manage compensation and quality delivery? Goal five is focused on quality insurance, so designing a more effective and responsive system of quality assurance. Eric: Okay.

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Finance Board-Certified IT Provider 95

GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

For example, putting the healthy food at the back of the grocery store is sludge; making an applicant for health insurance climb the flight of stairs to the office – weeding out those less fit – is also sludge. We tested two different nudges individually and then we combined them. Prior-auth forms? I highly encourage you.

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Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 116

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Eric: So in some ways, this is kind of like the VA, where you don’t have to follow Medicare guidelines, but you can actually actively do concurrent care for these individuals. And the dad just totally lost control, major anger management issues. Michele: Yeah. We have that. Alex: Mm-hmm. No, Michele: No. Keith: Yes. Keith: Yes.

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Family Families IT Community 132

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Started as a direct case manager, worked in a variety of different places including the state legislature and I’ve been with the state office now since 2006. It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. Eric: And Susan? You go back home.

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

But at any age, like, as Emily said, it is so important to pay attention to nutrition and healthy eating because it’s not just about, oh, chronic disease prevention or even treatment and management. And for any, any diet, it can, we can really tweak it to an individual’s preferences, their needs, that kind of thing.

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IT Diabetes Chronic Disease Patient-Centered 116

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. I didn’t know how to manage it. That never happens in CMS and other health insurance. And I was terrified. Malaz: Correct.

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Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The patients that, I think, most benefited from it were those individuals who, as I said, maybe, had a pneumonia, and needed IV antibiotics, but wanted to do that… If they could get better in the comfort of their own homes, that were not interested in passing away in the hospital. We weren’t even up to Medicare Advantage.

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Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115