GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

We invited Dani Chammas , a palliative care physician and psychiatrist at UCSF (and a frequent guest to the GeriPal podcast), as well as Brent Kious , a psychiatrist at the Huntsman Mental Health Institute, focusing on the management of severe persistent mental illnesses. Eric 00:51 And Alex, who do we have with us today?

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Illness Mental Health IT Patient-Centered 101

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

So folks that are having refractory ascites or refractory encephalopathies, challenging emotional symptom management as well. As this patient has an x percent mortality in three months, there’s a little more nuance to it, and it isn’t really applied to the individual. Sarah 24:19 Well, I don’t know. I mean, is it.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

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

MARCH 6, 2025

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. Health and health justice. We talk a lot about people being unhoused, which I think takes the blame away from the individual and kind of de. those experiencing homelessness). Naheed 15:53 Yeah, yeah.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

You get me with one-finger-chords on the guitar if you’re watching on YouTube (best I could manage). There was a case in BC a few months ago of a woman with mental health issues who had suffered from depression, chronic suicidality at times. So it started off for individuals with a terminal illness. Leonie: Right.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The SAMHSA defines trauma as an event, series events or set of circumstances experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening, with lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional or spiritual. Mariah 04:37 Exactly. Is that also a trauma?

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Patient-Centered IT Screening Patients 66

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

And so I began to think about the training that I had and that there was no mental health condition that was diagnosed. Really, only thing that I think was really in the biomedical health services literature at that time was probably Carla’s paper on loneliness. I would say that. Ashwin Kotwal: Yeah, that’s right.

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IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 99

GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

He studies the mental health system in the ways in which it has failed children and adolescents, and he writes about his experience with cancer in a blog, the Billgardner.substack.com, Billgardner, one word. It’s all individual. We have a Canadian theme going. We just had Harvey Chochinov on. It’s impressive.

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Illness IT Diagnose Medical 128

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Pain Manag Nurs. With the mental health, we pulled out the medical model. The post The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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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. We have about 450 inpatient mental health beds. We also look at their mental health. Michele: Yeah. We have that. Alex: Mm-hmm.

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Family Families IT Community 132

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

We welcome all professions, including but not limited to physicians, chaplains, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, case managers, administrators, and pharmacists. We randomized individual patients either to the SKY framework or to usual care. It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions. This is Eric Widera.

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IT Patient-Centered Family Families 99

GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Today we’re going to be talking about narrative writing specifically for healthcare professionals. Because, for example, we get a lot of pieces on wellness and mental health. I’m an empowered patient advocate, individual, and I feel like the motions, the feels were not necessarily in my essay at all.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 95

GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

was supported by the fossil fuel industry , because it shifted responsibility for change from industry to individuals. Today we find inspiration for my kids: there are adults who care deeply about this issue, particularly for older adults who are much more vulnerable to health effects of climate change. And then access to those.

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Healthcare IT Education Community 129

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

What are the structural factors and individual factors that contribute to homelessness? ” On that grand rounds, you differentiated structural factors from … I forget what the word was, individual- Margot: Individual risk factors. Why do we say “over 50” is “older” for homeless persons, why not 65?

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Mental Health IT Community Individual 123

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. I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. Eric: And Susan?

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

They had access to the cancer center resources, but they didn’t have access to sort of regular contact with palliative care mental health professionals. Eric 23:45 Yeah, I love that, too, because I think that one for me really is, can our interventions need to target the patient population that we’re managing?

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

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. Some of these models I think include more medication management, some of them don’t.

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Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125

GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

So take a listen and if you want a deeper dive into some of the references we discuss on the podcast, here is a list: Medscape article on how “ COVID-19 Vaccines Work Better and for Longer Than Expected Across Populations, Including Immunocompromised Individuals”. But we have managed to control it. I’m anxious. Talk me out of it.

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