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. And I would say we weren’t doing training on symptom management, for example. And then there was a lot of stuff on coping and symptom management. Who will emerge victorious?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We talk about what is heart failure, particularly HFpEF, how we treat it (including the use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2’s), and how we should apply guidelines to individual patients, especially those with multimorbidity who are taking a lot of other medications. But we’re not perfect individuals.

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Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 114

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Or somebody who has other physical cognitive problems at any age. That’s where it really gets to this individual risks and balances, individual situation. This is something we’ve heard from people: that if you just bring it up every year as part of your routine physical, like, “Any concerns about driving?”

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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 folks that are having refractory ascites or refractory encephalopathies, challenging emotional symptom management as well. Eric 11:05 So is there a trigger or what’s your referral criteria for the outpatient clinic?

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PEMBlog

JANUARY 16, 2025

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. We talk a lot about people being unhoused, which I think takes the blame away from the individual and kind of de. Naheed 20:04 And you know, the key to this conversation is not to put the onus on individuals.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

And so there was a report in 2009 by the Institute of Medicine saying that we need to equip all of these individuals in caring for older person in an evidence based manner. And so to develop that equation, they use the cohort of individuals and their data, their blood samples, creatine and other physical attributes.

Complication 52

Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

On todays podcast, weve invited Nathaniel Chin back to the GeriPal podcast to talk about what primary care needs to manage this new world of Alzheimers disease effectively. So I get all the referrals from my great colleagues in primary care. And I gotta manage their blood pressure and their diabetes meds. Nate 14:25 Oh.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that. Just an extraordinary cast of individuals who were really so incredibly inspiring. I guess one question for providers is, as we dive into individual sense of dignity, and I guess threats to that dignity, is potentially feeling like we’re opening this box.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

We welcome all professions, including but not limited to physicians, chaplains, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, case managers, administrators, and pharmacists. We randomized individual patients either to the SKY framework or to usual care. It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions. This is Eric Widera.

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IT Patient-Centered Family Families 99

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. And the dad just totally lost control, major anger management issues. Michele: Yeah. We have that. Alex: Mm-hmm.

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Family Families IT Community 133

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. It improves symptom management. What might be contributing?”

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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

MARCH 27, 2025

But most people with dementia are initially diagnosed and medically managed in primary care, and they really desire clinicians to initiate these conversations but there are a number of really important barriers for these conversations taking place. And is it at all individualized to the patient? It’s a lot. Yeah, 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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