GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Or somebody who has other physical cognitive problems at any age. Eric: But before we jump into talking to your patients about driving retirement cessation, let’s talk about what is the role of the healthcare professional in this at all? Certainly my bias is that healthcare professionals really do have a role in this discussion.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

We discuss the principles of harm reduction, social determinants of health, and trauma informed care. Alex End Well Talk [link] Resources on the PEACH Program Program Review Paper A recent publication in Longwoods Healthcare Quarterly reviewing the PEACH model. Canadian Press Feature A powerful and widely shared piece on our work.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

However, lack of physical presence may make this contender struggle to land the emotional support punch that is at the very heart of palliative care. We would make referrals to psycho oncology. I would make referrals to Joe as well as part of the team. Who will emerge victorious? So those social workers were involved.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Should eligibility and access be determined by clinician referral? If we move away from clinician referrals as the means by which people get access, how do we keep the clinicians engaged, and not enraged? Should we just use the referrals, whatever’s coming into us, whoever, whatever clinician decides. By diagnosis?

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. 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. It’s now available. Could it be someone else?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

If it’s continuing and it’s getting worse and maybe they have some swelling in the legs, there are some subtle findings on the echo, but really think for a second, could this be this really common cardiovascular condition, echocardiogram, maybe even a referral to a cardiologist? Eric 14:10 Yeah. So I think more to come.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

We start off part one by interviewing Michele DiTomas, who has been the longstanding Medical Director of the Hospice unit and currently is also the Chief Medical Executive for the Palliative care Initiative with the California Correctional Healthcare Services. I’ve known Michele a long time, since the Joint Medical Program.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

We found their physical environment was drastically different; where those with low feeding tube rates had really a rather beautiful physical environment. So we looked at hospital referral regions, and we looked at high- and low- intensity regions. What might be contributing?” Eric: Can we jump to the results?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

But we know from previous studies that a lot of older adults actually want this information, but might not feel comfortable bringing it up. So yes, it’s imperfect and we recognize that, and we’re always clinically making decisions that are based on imperfect information. Eric: Well, let me push you on that.

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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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GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Then there was that New England Journal catalyst study that showed that the healthcare executives thought that 60% of the people in their hospitals who could benefit from palliative care weren’t getting it. Look at the way they talk to the public, referral like HIV prep. So that’s the other part. So that’s the thing.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. 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.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

It sits at the intersection of emotion, interpersonal, physical, psychological, cultural. Eric 17:46 Well, how do you train them, the frontline people seeing these patients, healthcare providers, geriatricians, oncologists? All guests agree that clinicians feel they need to have something they can do if they open Pandora’s box.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

At a high level to sort of step in and start, you know, tinkering with workflows that, you know, are kind of as healthcare is a giant machine in primary care. It was information about our ACP facilitator. Ideally the conversation would happen before, but also clinicians were able to make referrals to facilitators. Is that right?

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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. Get the hospice referral. Eric: Yeah.

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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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