Physician's Weekly

JUNE 15, 2025

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Mental Health 52

Mental Health Healthcare Professional Individual Healthcare 52

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. A lot of those symptoms of depression can also be attributed to different kinds of physical symptoms. Des, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

Mental Health 122

Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

And I love the podcast that we did because it really highlights… We pride ourselves in palliative care, and focusing on physical, psychological, social, and spiritual suffering. I mean, they’re appropriate to enroll, I think. Eric: Yeah. I know we’re talking about primary palliative care interventions.

Patient-Centered 122

Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

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.

Community 97

Community IT Mental Health Medical 97

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

I mean, to me, the Buddhist concept that there are multiple forms of suffering, like there’s the suffering that’s due to pain and physical symptoms. I think there is a difference, too, between physical suffering, and we have to also give that its dignity. I think there is definitely a place, especially physical.

IT 137

IT Family Families Physicals 137

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?

Illness 101

Illness Mental Health IT Patient-Centered 101

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So falls, mobility concerns, polypharmacy, comorbidities, nutrition, social support, and mental health. And then the duo, physical and cognitive function, those are the seven that… Alex: Oh, that’s a good way of remembering it. So we tend to talk in terms of a geriatric assessment, the key domains. I like it, John.

Patient-Centered 129

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Gender expression is your physical outward manifestation of how you express your gender identity. Jace 29:36 We see higher rates of mental health challenges that I think are due to overcoming adversity. And of note, these concepts are not mutually exclusive. So where I would put it is stress. Eric 29:36 Yeah.

Individual 82

Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 82

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

First of all, as I understand the Carter decision, two of the things you’re supposed to have in order to be a candidate for MAID are enduring intolerable physical psychological suffering that can’t be addressed under conditions you consider acceptable. Eric: And now is it including mental health, psychiatric disorders?

Illness 144

Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Kate and Ashwin talked about their research on the prevalence of lifetime trauma and its association with physical and psychosocial health among adults at the end of life. Mariah 25:13 Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration, saa. Well, being a pretty comprehensive definition. Eric 04:19 Yeah.

IT 67

IT Patient-Centered Individual Patients 67

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

We get a bit of, in the veteran population, kind of a mix of a lot of mental health issues thrown into these comorbid illnesses, including cirrhosis, but it’s usually the decompensated cirrhotics or the folks with liver cancer and cirrhosis, or one of both. Eric 43:12 Okay.

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

We really like the community doctors to know, so those of you listening, that our patients, they’ve lost their physical freedom, but they have autonomy in terms of their medical decision-making just like anybody else. We have about 450 inpatient mental health beds. We also look at their mental health.

Family 132

Family Families IT Community 132

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. But also in addition, so that rules out reverse causality.

IT 99

IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 99

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

They want you to recognize their pain, not just their physical pain, but their trauma that they’ve experienced as a, as a, as a result of being on the streets. How do you actually physically find them if that’s the case? It might have to do with a sensitivity around mental health.

Healthcare 100

Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

And also, really like the way that you have identified different kinds of outcomes, spiritual wellbeing with the facet SP, as well as then impact on mental health outcomes or emotional distress outcomes of anxiety and depression. That’s one thing that I thought was really helpful and appreciate. So there is this overlap.

IT 99

IT Patient-Centered Family Families 99

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. We did not just rely on a physical symptom measure, which many of our colleagues are doing. It’s not just about physical symptom management.

Patient-Centered 119

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

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.

Healthcare 129

Healthcare IT Education Community 129

GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

And in our reporting center, we tracked physical assaults, verbal harassment. And also physical assault from serious injuries to just kind of hearing about friends who have died from this incident. And that has an impact, as we’ve shown in the papers, on your social health, your mental health and physical health.

Mental Health 116

Mental Health Community IT Screening 116

GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

Like yourself, when I was a resident, and pain has been shaped in our mind as being a purely physical sensation, especially on the clinical side, where this idea that pain is complex and that pain is as much an emotion as much as physical sensation is not really something we are trained to do. Haider: That was a great story.

Patient-Centered 106

Patient-Centered Physicals IT Patients 106

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.

Mental Health 123

Mental Health IT Community Individual 123

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And it was really good for my mental and physical… Physical health, obviously, but mental health really. appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. So if you are sick, I really encourage you, just take the time off.

Illness 98

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 98

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Too many people do because it’s really hard to keep their loved ones at home for the cost, the enormous financial, mental and physical strain for the family. So if you think about dementia, it’s on the intersection of aging stigma and mental health stigma. Diane: Which too many people do, Malaz. Diane: Yeah.

Patient-Centered 125

Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125

GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

And then maybe KN95s, FFP2s and KF94s, if you wear them, at least in physical science studies, if you’re inside in a crowded where Warrior stadium or something, that should provide you some self protection. Part of our recovery is mental health and seeing each other’s faces. And it is part of our being together.

Vaccination 100

Vaccination IT Hospital Management 100