Hospital Illness Physicals Workshop 
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? Anyone with neurologic illnesses, I think all of you know, too much socialization is like, stop. It is progressive. There is no cure.
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. You’re going to be in the hospital for a week, you’re going to feel like crap for, probably, the next two months.
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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. It’s not just about physical symptom management.
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. Wait, so one key message is that social health is linked to physical and cognitive health?!? And they’re often a sign of (or cause of?) worsening prognosis.
GeriPal
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
I t’s a collection of personal stories of a small number of health professionals, including Craig Blinderman and Susan Block , who have been struck by personal illness and loss. Because every time we remember a story, it’s changed physically in the brain. And so we just designed a couple of workshops to train some facilitators.
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