GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

What should we use to screen individuals? What I know is required, and I think this may be a national requirement for the D SNP beneficiaries, for people in those programs, those people who are a D SNP enrollee, dual special needs plans, which are Medicare, Medicaid. Who should get it if anyone? What happens after they test positive?

Screening 119

Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 119

GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

It’s just another example of, I think, that there’s a little extra special sauce there in the Beeson program. I’m thinking of chronic pain, for example, and individuals with chronic pain often have disturbed sleep or other conditions. But it seems like they’re probably also risk factors. Alex: Mm-hmm.

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Physicals IT Hypertension Education 85

The Motivated MD

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

For the better half of 2024, I have been periodically writing posts that are individual articles that double as potential chapters to a future book. Before we discuss each individual savings account, let us first highlight exactly what it means to ‘automate’ your savings. So yes, humans make mistakes.

Finance 52

Finance Education Individual Healthcare Professional 52

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We talk about what is heart failure, particularly HFpEF, how we treat it (including the use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2’s), and how we should apply guidelines to individual patients, especially those with multimorbidity who are taking a lot of other medications. Because I think we have someone special, a guest host.

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Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

And I’ll just say that I think what we know is there’s been so much greater advance care planning research and and at many levels, at a at an individual level, at a health system level, at a policy level. I think all three of us are probably ready to answer that to some extent. Hillary: Absolutely true.

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Community IT Patient-Centered Primary Care 95

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

I’d be operating at the top of what I’m capable of doing, to provide really tailored and individualized care for my patients and their care partners, where they are. So, I love how tailored and individualized it was, and that’s what this process evaluation is really showing us, so far. I’ll say it.

Patient-Centered 122

Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Anne: Well, speaking of your kids, a very special, sometimes listener, chimed in named Ren Smith. We’re willing to spend $50,000 a year for individuals for their expensive pharmacy medication. We shouldn’t be mandating individuals, this should be an optional thing for individuals. Alex: Okay. Alex: Thank you.

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IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 126

GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

What I think so special about palliative care is that there’s some really radical and important ideas that sort of undergird our work and that provided a foundation for our work. Are we losing that thing that makes palliative care special, that Dame Cicely Saunders talks about those. Well, I guess just over 20 years ago.

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IT Patient-Centered Families Family 104

GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

We must often deliver complex medical information that carries heavy emotional weight in pressured settings to individuals with varying cultural backgrounds, values, and beliefs. And my grandkid, like, I need you to see this child and, like, how wonderful and special they are. I heard that. And that is not actually tangential.

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IT Illness Families Family 132

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. So I really opted to specialize in lung cancer because I thought that was the appropriate population to build a supportive and palliative care research agenda. Jennifer: Thanks.

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

So in our trial, because of security reasons, we are required by Health Canada to store the substance in a special secure area in my office. So classically with preparation, in individual settings or even in group settings, you have one or two people supporting people through psychoeducation, what to expect, life review. Almost all.

Illness 107

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 107

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

I think some individuals thought there was cherry-picking of stories that made it seem like hospice is this bad thing, that it’s taking advantage of vulnerable individuals and it didn’t talk enough about the good things that hospice does. On the other side, there’s another group that thinks, you know what?

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IT Provider Patients Families 113

GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Eric: Alex, we have a super special today. We’ve got a hospice super special. Alex: We have a hospice super special day. Eric: We have a smorgasbord, if you will, of papers that got published recently around hospice, and that’s why we’re calling it a hospice super special. -@AlexSmithMD. Transcript.

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Families Family IT Patients 106

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

And, you know, I just thought it was a really special song. 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. And he actually was able to get through that with a lot of help from different people. We’re talking about liver.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Clinic 109

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. Well, being a pretty comprehensive definition.

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Patient-Centered IT Screening Patients 66

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. But are we really taking full advantage of ALL social workers have to offer our field? Thank you very, very much.

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IT Families Family Clinic 102

GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

We got some really special guests with us. And so that lends it properties of being a pretty strong analgesic and it lends its special properties for safety, from a safety profile. Management of chronic pain in the elderly: focus on transdermal buprenorphine. Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. This is Eric Widera.

Illness 102

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 102

GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

Sammy,” and the generosity of other people doing this work, I don’t know if it’s because we all work in palliative care and we’re good people to begin with, or it’s something very special about someone like Julie, and Matt’s given me feedback about things. And that’s not particularly sexy.

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Education IT Illness Healthcare 127

GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

I was asking about what was going to be special about the trip or if they were going to do things with their family. They’re like, “Everyone wants to make every moment of our day special.” It’s all individual. Juliet: I feel like I stumbled upon this number of years ago actually. It’s impressive.

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Illness IT Diagnose Medical 128

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Arguing for the state of Missouri against the Cruzan’s was Ken Starr, who would later be assigned the role of special prosecutor in the investigation of the Clintons (Whitewater, Lewensky, etc). I hope the law continues to allow flexibility in individualism. He was the special prosecutor. Eric: Yeah. Laurie, how about you?

Families 112

Families Family Patient-Centered IT 112

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

So there’s this, what is suffering to the individual, and is there some threshold that we could say, “This is real suffering,” or “This is the suffering we talk about in geriatrics or palliative care”? Naomi: Well, I have a special place of not being a doctor within this great group of people.

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IT Families Family Physicals 137

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

The idea is, if it works at MGH, that’s a special kind of a place, maybe they do palliative care differently, maybe they have better resources, would this work at other transplant centers that have different kinds of clinicians or that serve different kinds of patients; so we wanted to have diversity of sites and clinicians and patients.

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Consulting Patient-Centered Patients IT 115

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

There’s no special thing to say, but sometimes we’re tempted to treat serious illness communication in that way, conversational judo or something, that I can maneuver around an encounter and create something new. All these studies in this fringe… We want the special key. And oftentimes there is no password.

Illness 101

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Despite these substantial needs, specialized palliative care beyond hospice is rare in nursing homes. So, how can we improve palliative care for individuals in nursing homes? How to think about primary and specialized palliative care in this setting. The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. Go ahead, Alex.

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Referral Nurse Practitioner Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

We’ve invited some very special guests to talk about the lower urinary tract – Christine Kistler and Scott Bauer. . Very interested in decision making around as we get older, individualizing care, sort of patient centered, values driven, it’s a tough decision to figure out. Chrissy: That’s fascinating.

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Management IT Medical Patient-Centered 122

GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Today we’re going to be talking about narrative writing specifically for healthcare professionals. It feels special to me. I’m an empowered patient advocate, individual, and I feel like the motions, the feels were not necessarily in my essay at all. So unlike academic journals and elsewhere.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 95

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

primary palliative care interventions seem to fail, whereas specialized palliative care interventions have a relatively robust track record of success. Eric 19:30 Should we add that to special effects as our producer? You’d have to tailor it to each individual emergency department because you couldn’t. That is safe.

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Patient-Centered Hospital IT Patients 77

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

And also it’s a little bit of an insult to one’s identity to feel like if this special person in your life can be forgotten, then you can be forgotten. But our living memory home is a way to both maintain that connection, because that’s the fear is that you’re going to lose this connection to this very special person.

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IT Complication Relationship Specialization 100

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Chaplains can do an assessment of the spirituality of the individual and then they use interventions that are part of their discipline and those interventions are tailored to the individual’s spiritual and religious needs of the person that they’re caring for. They followed them during the course of their hospital stay.

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IT Patient-Centered Families Family 99

GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

We talk with Kate about how despite how far we’ve come in palliative care research, we still don’t have answers to some fundamental questions, such as: Who should get specialized palliative care? Alex: It gets very local and individualizes as you were saying. Should eligibility and access be determined by clinician referral?

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Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis Referral 99

GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

This week we’re going on to episode two, which is for me one of the most special episodes we’ve done in GeriPal for a very, very long time. Eric: And in the end, we have a very special part where we actually get a tour of their gardens outside of the hospice unit. I am there with individuals who are dying.

Families 97

Families Family IT Board-Certified 97

GeriPal

AUGUST 8, 2024

Eric 00:05 And Alex, we have a special episode today — B etween T wo U rns. So writing a eulogy or seeing that individual, we had an open casket, which was both very hard, but also, I would say, somewhat cathartic to actually do these rituals and participate in these rituals. Transcript Eric 00:01 Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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IT Families Family Relationship 124

GeriPal

MARCH 31, 2022

But then when you think about each one and their individual selves and how some are bruised, some are broken and what we do with them and how we can take the time to cherish each one and for what it is. Steve had a very special ability in that. And that’s what this essay is about that I was exerting Marilyn’s quotes from.

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IT Patients Medical Illness 70

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

She’s a geriatric nurse practitioner specializing in palliative care, and assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. We got rid of all these psychotropic medications and this person … one individual had had a vascular dementia. Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast, Joan. Joan: Thanks.

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Nurse Practitioner Hospital Families Family 60

GeriPal

MARCH 16, 2023

We have two authors, books, op-eds, prolific authors, and today’s podcast is a two-part special. So this week we’re going to be talking about writing for the lay public, and next week we’ll be publishing a podcast on writing for healthcare providers. When I write, I learn a ton from that.

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IT Healthcare Professional Healthcare Transportation 105

GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

was supported by the fossil fuel industry , because it shifted responsibility for change from industry to individuals. I actually wonder though, since we’re on a GeriPal broadcast, I think that people are under emphasizing the special risk of older people. Voting and emailing congress to advocate for systemic change (e.g.

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Healthcare IT Education Hospital 129

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Eric 00:13 And Alex, we have a super special today, three different articles. Alex 00:18 Prognosis, super special today. This is a particularly interesting topic because we know that individuals with dementia have a high rate of entering nursing home. Alex 00:05 To claim credit, p lease go to the C ME tab on GeriPal.org.

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Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 106