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 really spent a lot of time helping the clinicians see that a patient’s illness, understanding and prognostic awareness was just as important as their pain scale, their pain score.

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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 106

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? We can’t possibly meet the needs of all people with newly diagnosed serious illness. By diagnosis? By prognosis?

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Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis IT 100

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Love to talk about also in the serious illness population. Or somebody who has other physical cognitive problems at any age. Emmy: So that older person or person with maybe terminal illness or developing impairments, it might make sense for them to just keep driving because they don’t have a good replacement.

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Families IT Family Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. So we’re going to be today talking about serious illness palliative care in the homelessness population. I’ll just throw out there people with serious illness experiencing homelessness.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 102

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Eric 07:08 Which of the patients that you think you’re helpful for, you want referrals? Eric 11:05 So is there a trigger or what’s your referral criteria for the outpatient clinic? When the lymphedema therapy, it’s a type of physical therapy where they do wraps and they go. Eric 43:12 Okay.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 110

GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

And I think that there is room for shortening the duration if your patient is non-immunocompromised and not severely ill. So I think there are caveats and if you have a non immunocompromised, not severely ill patient that has again defervesced, then there is room for reducing the duration to three days for community acquired pneumonia.

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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Fox gives patients hope there may be a place that illness doesn’t touch Depression is a Liar Why is Being a Patient Such a Difficult Pill to Swallow Better Patient Care Calls for a ‘Platinum Rule’ to Replace the Golden One. Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that. So there are three primary domains.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

But now we have older people dying of older people illnesses. 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. The person didn’t believe in the medications.

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Families Family IT Community 133

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

So I get all the referrals from my great colleagues in primary care. Most of the public wants to have access to treatments and interventions that might help them forestall a devastating illness. So we’re talking about primary care and so I’m a little bit biased here. It’s. Nate 29:18 Well, we’re waiting.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Some more assessment also potentially some interventional around total pain, including spiritual suffering that actually may worsen physical pain. And so following that stream, sort of some of the most recent work was funded by the VA, first of all to develop a measure of spirituality for those in serious illness.

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IT Patient-Centered Families Family 99

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

So we have a list of various interventions like hospice referral, like more intensive treatment for blood pressure, more intensive treatment for diabetes, for dysglycemia, hyperglycemia, statins, bisphosphonates. So the time to benefit page is trying to make the mortality indexes link more closely to the time to benefit.

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IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Juliet and Rachelle are two of the authors of a recent JAMA viewpoint titled “Shifting to Serious Illness Communication.” . Also see the image below from Alex’s editorial in JAGS , a Venn diagram of advance care planning and serious illness communication. Shifting to Serious Illness Communication. Transcript. What is it?

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 98

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. Alex 12:36 And most of our listeners are like clinician, practicing clinicians caring for older adults, people with serious illness.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 120

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Eric 01:13 So we got a lot to cover today on sexuality, sexual health and serious illness. So we got a lot to cover on sexuality, sexual health, and serious illness. I think this is a topic we don’t talk about as much in the context of serious illness. Don, welcome to GeriPal. Don 01:11 Thank you so much.

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 131

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Alex 02:44 Still suffering from some illness from there, which is why I was sick and not in the office with Eric today. Ideally the conversation would happen before, but also clinicians were able to make referrals to facilitators. Like, how close to the end of life is it all just in seriously ill patients, I guess.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 80

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

Eric: We’re going to be talking about telemedicine for those who have serious illness, and this came out of a recent publication Carly did in the San Francisco Chronicle titled Telemedicine Helps People in Pain, Don’t Take That Away. So we’re going to be talking about telemedicine, telehealth for people with serious illness.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

They gave me another referral and reported the practice to Medicare. I invite your readers to look for “ Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies ” by Seth Holmes to start understanding the physical toll that working in the fields takes on young immigrants, even when they arrive as healthy bodies.

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