Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

There is robust data regarding the importance of patient connection and engagement in the hospital and clinic setting. However, a less examined aspect is patient and community engagement outside traditional healthcare settings. Engaging with patients and the community outside the exam room is crucial for several reasons.

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Chronic Disease Management Community Education Chronic Disease 52

GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Rather they’re Ill, maybe they’re aging unsuccessfully, but never really resilient. How do you maintain successful aging, which is often free of disease or illness or disability? Anne, you’ve been going to a lot of conferences on arts and healthcare, and I was thinking back to Ab years ago. It is progressive.

Community 101

Community IT Individual Patient-Centered 101

GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Two or three decades now, Gretchen, about fix-it language not only in surgery but in a variety of clinical spaces, which really refers to language that portrays illness, really, through a mechanical model. The problem is, that’s actually not a very good narrative for nearly everything we take care of in healthcare. Alexis: Sure.

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IT Family Families Patient-Centered 128

GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

I wonder if you could say a little bit more about the meta Institute in particular and what it is that clinicians today can do to learn, to be more present and learn about the need to be thoughtful and compassionate in the care that they provide people with serious illness. Frank 08:43 Well, briefly. Where can they go? Home caregivers.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Relationship 122

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

But from our clinical work, many of us are familiar with people with dementia who experience sudden shocks to their health, think hip fracture, think hospitalization for pneumonia. And then when you see clinically patients coming into hospital, they’ll have, you know, they’ll be admitted for aspiration pneumonia.

Illness 93

Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Alex 00:34 We are delighted to welcome back Jennifer Tem e l, who is a thoracic oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Alex 12:36 And most of our listeners are like clinician, practicing clinicians caring for older adults, people with serious illness. Eric 26:47 How soon after from a hospitalization, all.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Poetry helps us grapple with our own experiences of illness. Links to Redwing’s poetry workshops: Food for Thought Poetry for Resiliency. Alex: It sounds like that might be a part of the workshops that you run. Redwing: That’s what we do in these workshops. To let it go. . AlexSmithMD . Advance Care Planning.

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Patient-Centered IT Community Illness 93