GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

An end-of-life doula is a non-medical support person that provides a longitudinal relationship with aspects of medical, I mean, aspects of companionship, presence, holding space, some logistics, some practical help, decision making perhaps. That’s probably too medical. I’m using my medical brain.

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Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Panelists Kate Courtright and Scott Halpern have no relationships to disclose. Eric: Utilization, utilization, utilization. Those two things together, no increase in mortality but increase in hospice utilization, it doesn’t prove that palliative care is goal-concordant, but it’s certainly suggestive.

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Consulting Hospital Patient-Centered IT 120

GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

Nathan: I have drawn for my entire life, but I gave up cartoons because I thought I had to during medical school and residency. But if you look at my lecture notes from medical school, it’s just plastered with cartoons and doodles. I thought doctors are serious, cartoons are not serious. It was in there just trying to escape.

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IT Hospital Patients Illness 145

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

A friend of GeriPal, and prior guest, Guy Micco commented today that we need an RCT for chaplaincy is like the idea that the humanities need to justify their value in medical training: “It’s like being told to measure the taste of orange juice with a ruler.” There was an assessment that was focused on four spiritual domains.

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Patient-Centered IT Family Families 99

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

It was really at the level of the ED across 33 EDs in random order, and then tried to see if we could make a difference in healthcare utilization, primarily the primary outcome was admission to the hospital, acute care admission. Would it have changed potentially utilization rates like hospice utilization?

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Patient-Centered Hospital IT Patients 77

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

And assisted living doesn’t offer the same level of medical supportive services as nursing homes. That services need to be in the building, I think is an important one to talk about because people in nurses nursing homes do have a lot of medical issues. Some will have stronger relationships with hospice.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And resource utilization was very low in all the groups. Eric 14:24 So it’s hard to improve resource utilization for these people where some of them didn’t sound like the sickest of people admitting them to the hospital, but all had some type of serious illness. We are going to have healthcare utilization data as well.

Consulting 63

Consulting Community Patient-Centered Family 63

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Disruptive events are medical, surgical. And there is this bidirectional relationship between wealth and health shocks. And then I was inspired by this paper and then really interested in looking at the bidirectional relationship between the two of them. And hospitalization for pneumonia is like a medical event.

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Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, basically, with a stepped care model, the goal is to tailor care delivery to the patient’s needs while at the same time utilizing less clinician resources. It’s about establishing a relationship and rapport. There was a difference, though, in hospice utilization, right? Jennifer 04:25 I can take that on.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Not just with our aging and independent services, but also with our behavioral health services, with our public health services, with our medical care services, to really have everyone see older people as part of their work. I knew them, I developed a relationship with them. Are there fall and injury risk?

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89