GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

I think part of this does stem from a clinical experience and also some of the theoretical models that have evolved around serious illness, you know, to think specifically about dementia. And so trying to think a little bit more about what could be driving some of those alterations in the trajectory for all kinds of serious illness.

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Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 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? Anyone with neurologic illnesses, I think all of you know, too much socialization is like, stop. It is progressive. There is no cure.

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Community IT Individual Patient-Centered 102

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. Much more about relationships has been my experience.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Relationship 123

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Alex 12:36 And most of our listeners are like clinician, practicing clinicians caring for older adults, people with serious illness. Eric 21:46 So this study showed that in people with chronic critical illness, having palliative care lead one and a half sessions in an ICU around prognosis and goals. Is this superior to that?

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 120

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. This is a poem that gets into this issue of, what is the clinician relationship to all that stuff that’s going on around us? Redwing: That’s what we do in these workshops.

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Patient-Centered IT Community Illness 93

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. And so we just designed a couple of workshops to train some facilitators. And that was just ruptured because I knew there was no way out for her. Eric: Yeah.

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Healthcare Professional Healthcare IT Relationship 103