GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. So it’s just a wide-opening lens that most of us never really get to see if we’re on the hospital-based side. Carmen: Thank you.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A lot of those symptoms of depression can also be attributed to different kinds of physical symptoms. So what’s amazing about these guidelines, so if you go to 12 different hospitals and ask them, “How are you managing psychiatric conditions and mental health concerns in the context of palliative care?”

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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

JUNE 9, 2022

Palliative care, in contrast, saw explosive growth in US hospitals. 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? I do tend to focus in the hospital setting.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

I’ve worked in hospital settings as an occupational therapist, inpatient rehab and outpatient rehab. Emmy: I was seeing people in the hospital setting, saying they had had a massive brain injury. Emmy: Ended up starting a program, outpatient at our hospital at the time. How did you get interested in this? Emmy: About 25%.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

And then the duo, physical and cognitive function, those are the seven that… Alex: Oh, that’s a good way of remembering it. ” 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. Drugs has to do with polypharmacy.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

And in fact, as Alex mentioned in the intro, probably more than 20 years ago, Muriel Gillig asked me to help out with the geriatric modules at the Brigham women’s hospital primary care medicine sort of sessions. Because I also feel like we target people’s low sodium diets in the hospital. Alex 04:47 Probably was, yeah.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Sonali: This seven versus 14 days for male UTI combines really well with the gram negative bacteriemia paper because sometimes we are faced with patients in the hospital which are disposition issue. So transmission of other drug resistant organisms and C difficile to other patients in the hospital reduces if you control.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michaels Hospital in Toronto, and health justice activist. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. You didn’t have to walk many blocks down the street to a hospital or another facility where people were getting world class care. And that’s about half of our referrals.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Eric 07:08 Which of the patients that you think you’re helpful for, you want referrals? So if one of my patients gets admitted, I also see them on the inpatient side of our hospital. Eric 11:05 So is there a trigger or what’s your referral criteria for the outpatient clinic? I see them both inpatient and outpatient.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

On today’s podcast we dive into drivers of invasive procedures and hospitalizations in advanced dementia by talking to some pretty brilliant nursing and nurse practitioner researchers focused on dementia, geriatrics, and palliative care in nursing homes: Ruth Palan Lopez, Caroline Stephens, Joan Carpenter, and Lauren Hunt. Ruth: Thank you.

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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, it’s kind of on top of that. Tony: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

We really like the community doctors to know, so those of you listening, that our patients, they’ve lost their physical freedom, but they have autonomy in terms of their medical decision-making just like anybody else. When they built a new prison hospital in Stockton, the dialysis went there.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

On the other hand, all of our guests agree that chaplains are often the most vulnerable to being cut from hospital and health system budgets. They followed them during the course of their hospital stay. These studies are important. These hick pick codes are available to any chaplain in a healthcare system. Did it have any impact?

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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. 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.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

ePrognosis started out as just a list of different prognostic indices, so things to predict mortality in hospitalized adults, things to predict mortality in community dwelling adults, things to predict mortality in nursing home residents. And we’ve been slowly building that out. is a coin flip, which is useless clinically, right?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that. So tiny, tiny, in a hospital bed. So I mean, I had referrals from as far as Canadian Arctic North, of people who were interested in doing dignity therapy. My oldest sister who I’ve written a little bit about, her name was Ellen.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back, a frequent guest to our podcast, Rachelle Bernacki, who’s a palliative care physician and geriatrician at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. And it was really good for my mental and physical… Physical health, obviously, but mental health really.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Alex 00:06 We are delighted to welcome back Areej El-Jawahri, who’s an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who specializes in blood cancers. It sits at the intersection of emotion, interpersonal, physical, psychological, cultural. Alex 00:03 This is Alex Smith. Eric 00:04 And Alex, who do we have with us today?

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Ideally the conversation would happen before, but also clinicians were able to make referrals to facilitators. A lot has changed, but what motivated the study was a recognition that most advanced care planning interventional research had been undertaken in nursing homes. We were agnostic on the timing. Wait, how is that actually defined?

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back to GeriPal podcast, Brooke Calton, who is a palliative care physician and faculty at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and is also newly the Medical Director of palliative care at Devoted Health. Joe: Great to be here. Welcome back to GeriPal, Brooke. Brooke: Thank you.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Walk-in clinics are overbooked, the emergency rooms at the hospitals all have overfull waiting rooms and doctors and nurses are doing 12-hour or longer shifts. They gave me another referral and reported the practice to Medicare. I had a biopsy in a hospital last month, and one of the nurses spoke to me as if I were a 2-year-old.

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