GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Physical therapy had walked with him that day and noted improvement compared to previous walks, suggesting that he should be discharged to a skilled nursing facility for rehabilitation on discharge. At the end of the day, I lamented that physical, occupational, and speech therapists aren’t more tightly integrated with palliative care teams.

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Hospital Patient-Centered Patients IT 132

GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

And so here’s a picture of four healthcare providers behind bars. ” The first healthcare provider said, “I said withdrawal of care. I think it was just sort of commentary that I had running in my head about what is the real utility of this radar? We feel like we deserve to be in palliative care jail.

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IT Hospital Patients Illness 145

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

These hick pick codes are available to any chaplain in a healthcare system. Really important person, who later in his life got very interested in healthcare. And as you’ve written in your work, there is a justified mistrust of the healthcare system and an ethic of struggle that needs to be appreciated.

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Patient-Centered IT Family Families 99

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Tom: So we did this study because patients who go through the stem cell transplant process face a lot of misery in terms of physical symptoms, psychological distress, anxiety, depression, and even a risk of PTSD afterwards, sort of like a medical trauma, you might think of it. I’m just stunned even writing that! We’ve come so far as a field.

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Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

And I actually think the cool thing about a needs-based approach would allow us to better utilize the service. How do we best utilize the power that we have in a really efficient way that allows us to reach more patients where they are and what they need. Or there’s physical symptom needs. Kate: That’s right.

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Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis Referral 99

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that. And it’s a bit of a hokey title, but what I try and impress on readers there is that, the reflection that patients see of themselves, at least metaphorically in the eye of the healthcare provider, needs to be one that is affirming of patient dignity.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

It’s one of the core things that we think about palliative care is you got the physical, psychological, social and spiritual symptoms. There’s a Boguts case, a patient with anorexia who utilized medical aid and dying. When you think about the word palliative psychiatry, is that what we’re talking about?

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Illness Mental Health IT Patient-Centered 101

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. 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. That is correct.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Wait, so one key message is that social health is linked to physical and cognitive health?!? And it was her conceptual, like incorporation of functional decline, some measure of functional decline along with a serious illness diagnosis that you’re utilizing here. And the government can do something about that?!?

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Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And I’m worried about all of us as healthcare workers, but particularly… And when I say particularly those in the hospital, because they are just tired. And it was really good for my mental and physical… Physical health, obviously, but mental health really. They were slightly mischaracterized. Rachelle: Yeah.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Family 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. Eric: And looking back at that time, what do you think the healthcare system could have done to help with that? As you know the healthcare system right now, we struggle.

Patient-Centered 125

Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

And so I’m not sure if this is true for Joe or for Brooke, but even before the pandemic in our practice here, we saw somewhere around 40 to 50% of our patients via telemedicine anyway, because we have a catchment area of patients who live very far away, many of whom have a lot of physical disability and other limitations to coming in person.

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Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73