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Leveraging U=U Interventions for Black Women With HIV

Physician's Weekly

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? Patients are in a very vulnerable state when they enter the healthcare setting.

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Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

GeriPal

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.

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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

GeriPal

So falls, mobility concerns, polypharmacy, comorbidities, nutrition, social support, and mental health. ” Whether it’s referrals that need to be made, or whether they’re specific actions that the person at home needs to take, like a home safety change. And Mazie mentioned a few earlier. Mazie: Yes.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

When we take a mental health history, for example, I think we ask people, we do the PHQ, or whatever it is that we’re doing, asking people that mood. Should it just be referral to their PMD, who’s all, “Why are these people telling me to do all this stuff all the time?” Katie: Yeah. Jessie: Right.

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Palliative Care in Liver Disease: A Podcast with Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson

GeriPal

Eric 07:08 Which of the patients that you think you’re helpful for, you want referrals? Eric 11:05 So is there a trigger or what’s your referral criteria for the outpatient clinic? Sarah 07:12 It’s mostly our decompensated cirrhosis patients. So I was initially getting a lot of post transplant symptom stuff.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

As you can imagine, get referrals from healthcare workers, emergency departments, primary care, cancer care hospital, you know, internal medicine to our service. And that’s about half of our referrals. It might have to do with a sensitivity around mental health. That’s a question too, Alex.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

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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