Barton Associates

JUNE 19, 2025

There’s a lot that goes into running a healthcare facility , from managing patient care to ensuring adequate coverage around the clock. In these complex and ever-changing environments, staffing challenges can quickly become a critical issue, impacting both patient care quality and operational efficiency.

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The Motivated MD

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Further, finding the correct balance between pursuing my writing passion while still managing the business side of a blog was challenging as well. managing significant educational debt, navigating physician mortgages, owning your own practice, etc.). These include my marriage, my family, my career, and my physical and mental health.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

U=U is a very relevant and necessary message that should be part of any intervention that addresses ART adherence, viral load suppression, stigma, and mental health. What are some strategies for integrating mental health support? Why has U=U messaging not been used in interventions for Black women with HIV?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Eric: So you could probably tell we’re going to be talking about mental health issues. In particular, mental health integration and issues in pain and in palliative care. So how we screen for mental health distress is really important. Des, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Eric: Yeah. I’m dying.”

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

It was around helping communication, and really focused on our nursing manual, and particularly around these guidelines for assessing and managing symptoms. We weren’t providing physical therapy or providing mental… I mean, we were doing some mental health care, but it was really using what we had available in that space.

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Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

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

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

But why I decided to look at medical and mental health care and assisted living. So, we’ve been seeing that there’s this increasing need for attending to the medical and mental health wellbeing of people in assisted living more so than before, because it’s not really just a social model of care.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

If you believe the evidence for efficacy to manage symptoms like neuropathic pain, how do you even start to think about recommending these products to patients? Eloise is a palliative care NP at Stanford and co-founder of The Radicle Health Clinician Network. They want to be able to manage their own symptoms.

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Medical IT Patient-Centered Healthcare 98

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. Maybe we’ll get to talking about that today. Jessie, welcome back to GeriPal. Katie: Yeah.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

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

JULY 11, 2024

So folks that are having refractory ascites or refractory encephalopathies, challenging emotional symptom management as well. Any particular thoughts on how to manage pain and liver disease from a pharmacological perspective? It’s kind of the management or pearls around those drugs you can give them. I mean, is it.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

In particular, she reminds us that when we think about the most challenging of our patient encounters, they almost always involve a complex psychosocial dynamic, and this has received far less attention than communication and symptom management issues. . I don’t even remember pain management teaching. AlexSmithMD .

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Illness IT Families Family 109

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Jace 29:36 We see higher rates of mental health challenges that I think are due to overcoming adversity. One is to seek additional training because the standards of care from wpath, which literally outlines how you would manage hormones, is there. So where I would put it is stress. Eric 29:36 Yeah.

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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. Eric: And now is it including mental health, psychiatric disorders?

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

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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IT Families Family Physicals 137

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

How much of your training was focused on managing substance use disorder training and palliative care? Naheed 24:31 So especially with the referrals that we get and the calls that we get from our non healthcare colleagues, they tend to be folks who are case managing people on the streets and supporting them. Naheed 15:56 2014.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So falls, mobility concerns, polypharmacy, comorbidities, nutrition, social support, and mental health. The post Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

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. We have a Canadian theme going. We just had Harvey Chochinov on. They want to go back to before the illness, before the cancer.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

It’s like a long, I don’t know, almost like a quarter-mile centipede with legs, and the legs are the housing units, the medical units, inpatient mental health. We have about 450 inpatient mental health beds. We also look at their mental health. If not, well, no, then they’d be denied.

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Families Family IT Community 132

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. The first one we did with Louise Aronson and Rosanne Leipzig on Writing for the Lay Public. So unlike academic journals and elsewhere.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

And so even being asked, you know, like, it’s very hard for an individual to feel, to say, yes, I’ve had recurrent trauma in my life and that’s affected my mental health, my physical health, my cognitive health, et cetera. Mariah 25:13 Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration, saa.

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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.

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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. And so if we look at things from either a managed care or a population health point of view, there is a huge impact of the distress that these family members face.

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IT Patient-Centered Families Family 99

GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

So it’s just every single part of our life is affected and mental health issues. Eric: I guess, Ruth, the question for you is what’s the role of the healthcare system in all of this? Why is it up to the healthcare system? I mean, many people in their mid to older years are on certain medications.

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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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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

When they think about homelessness, their mind goes to what I would call the individual risk factors, things like having a substance use disability or mental health disability. It is completely disconnected, like a scatter plot, between things like rates of substance use and mental health. Those are structural factors.

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Mental Health IT Community Individual 123

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

JULY 7, 2022

Haider: In fact, I think one of the things that allows us to do, and one of the things that I’m a big proponent for, is that many patients with pain, especially patients with chronic pain can really, really benefit from specific cognitive mental health therapies that have been designed to help those people in pain. Haider: Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And it was really good for my mental and physical… Physical health, obviously, but mental health really. Juliet: And so the question is like, how do we… There are these massive shifts because that’s not just about symptom management. The world will continue without you and you will feel better.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 98

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 Families Family 125

GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

And if you look at the span of history of infectious diseases, we have always managed to control all infectious diseases because we have tools because it’s the other, it’s not yourself. But we have managed to control it. Eric: We’ll talk about the management, paxlovid, too. Infectious disease is always other.

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