Center for Family Medicine

APRIL 21, 2025

Sleep is essential for physical and mental well-being. Studies show that exercise helps individuals fall asleep faster while improving sleep quality. These changes can also help with weight management and cognitive function, potentially improving sleep disorders. The timing of meals can also lead to issues like insomnia.

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Consulting Individual Physicals Chronic Disease 52

Priority Physicians

JANUARY 27, 2025

Physical Effects of Anxiety Anxiety levels in Indiana are high — 32.9% It may affect your performance and relationships. Tips to Manage Anxiety If anxieties disable your daily life, discuss the situation with your direct primary care doctor. But in the meantime, we have a few tips that may help you manage anticipatory anxiety.

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Primary Care Doctor Primary Care Board-Certified Physicals 52

GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests George Kuchel & Alison Huang have no relationships to disclose. Incontinence and avoiding issues can present in an older individual, in some cases, just like they do a younger person. Biological aging or physiological aging varies from individual to individual.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Clinic 121

GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

And yet we’re also in a different place in diabetes monitoring and management. AlexSmithMD Additional Links: – Fingerstick monitoring in VA nursing homes (too common!) – Improving diabetes management in hospice – Continuous Glucose Monitoring complicating end of life care Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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Diabetes Management Patient-Centered Families 74

PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The role of lifestyle and dietary modifications in management. Management of gastritis and the consideration of Helicobacter pylori infection. Gastroesophageal Reflux: Management Guidance for the Pediatrician. They do, though, have distinct pathophysiologies and management strategies. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr.

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Diagnosis Management IT Patient-Centered 52

GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

The physics and mathematics that went into radiation therapy planning. Eric 04:49 Drew me to the field physics and math. So we need to have a discussion upfront about how we’re managing the patient’s pain. Sometimes individuals have lung tumors that make it difficult for them to breathe. Anish 04:13 Yeah.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Noelle Marie 01:24 I think it really speaks a lot to my own personal journey and I’m pretty sure a lot of trans and gender diverse individuals also resonate with and it really speaks about our transition, celebrating our authentic selves, how society views us and how we view ourselves when we stand in front of a mirror.

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Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 82

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. Panelists Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates have no relationships to disclose. laughter] Carmen, welcome to the GeriPal podcast! Carmen: Thank you.

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Community Transportation IT PCP 116

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. And I would say we weren’t doing training on symptom management, for example.

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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 106

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Pain Manag Nurs. Panelists BJ Miller and Naomi Saks have no relationships to disclose. ” So there’s this element too, of what’s suffering in relationship to others, and can we compare? 2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3.

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IT Families Family Physicals 137

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. Because how that is approached can have lasting effects on relationships, unfortunately. Those things do just accumulate with age. Alex: Yeah. Eric: Yeah.

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IT Families Family Diagnosis 102

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 11, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson have no relationships to disclose. So folks that are having refractory ascites or refractory encephalopathies, challenging emotional symptom management as well.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 110

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Panelists David Bekelman, Lyndsay DeGroot, and Diah Martina have no relationships to disclose. And I love the podcast that we did because it really highlights… We pride ourselves in palliative care, and focusing on physical, psychological, social, and spiritual suffering. I mean, they’re appropriate to enroll, I think.

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GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

And those of us who work in palliative care are more familiar with the 5ht3 receptor, which we use for nausea management. Due to this sense of allostatic overload, like you’re just overwhelmed and you don’t have the resources, the self efficacy or the self esteem to manage it. So 5ht2 was. The flight instructions.

Illness 109

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 109

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. By the time he got into us, the tumor grew, he had experienced, he was experiencing significant pain and so trauma, informed care and building a relationship with him was such a big part of the care. Yeah, yeah.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 102

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest hosts Lynn Flint and Anne Kelly have no relationships to disclose. Alex: And, it means pain management. We’re willing to spend $50,000 a year for individuals for their expensive pharmacy medication. Eric: That was the SAT answer.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

In this podcast, we cover a great deal of ground, including: Early challenges Dr. Raj faced in pain management: access to opioids, corruption, a system that doesn’t see addressing suffering as a priority. What she called total pain, physical, psychosocial, and spiritual, and she started addressing it. Healthcare industry cannot do it.

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Community IT Relationship Healthcare 116

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families. But the palliative care clinicians didn’t have the time or opportunity to foster and develop a longitudinal relationship with patients and their families.

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 111

GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

We must often deliver complex medical information that carries heavy emotional weight in pressured settings to individuals with varying cultural backgrounds, values, and beliefs. Is the sort of task to manage. Eric 26:25 So if that therapeutic relationship reverses and now they’re supporting you. All right, Anne.

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IT Illness Families Family 133

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Kate and Ashwin talked about their research on the prevalence of lifetime trauma and its association with physical and psychosocial health among adults at the end of life. And you can’t really predict how each individual might react to the same experience. Some of them are really deeply individual experiences.

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IT Patient-Centered Individual Screening 67

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Ishwaria 05:29 And that’s really how this field of professional well being, healthcare professional well being, clinician well being, has evolved, is that there is an important place in our overall professional well being for personal resilience and our individual coping strategies, recovery methods from day to day. It’s just not.

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IT Healthcare Healthcare Professional Patient-Centered 112

GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

I loved the relationship that we developed and the fun we had. And I think that the richness of our relationships, like I have kept involved in a lot of the people that I was working with, mostly at home, where people were dying at home. A good prescriber, a good symptom control manager. And she said, I run like hell.

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IT Patient-Centered Families Family 105

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

I initially got into it because I was really looking at the psychophysiology of stress, and so how stress affects our health and how relationships were always a component of that. But then recognizing that our relationships impact our health even outside the context of stress. I would say that. Alex: You did get big press.

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IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 100

GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Tell me how your illness has impacted your relationships with others, your healthcare team, your family, friends, your beliefs, your values, your preferences. You would love this because in that story that was in that patient CHR was a particular song that had meant a lot to this individual. Tell me about your illness.

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Patient-Centered Illness Healthcare IT 116

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Stop thinking the physical exam or the differential diagnose, whatever, and just be there. And maybe you’ll say the wrong thing, maybe you’ll do the wrong thing, and that’s part of human relationship as well. You had no relationship. It was surprising how much of a blow that carried to the relationship.

Illness 102

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 102

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. Lexy: The domains were meaning and purpose, relationships, transcendence and peace, and self-worth and identity, and we developed those. This is Eric Widera.

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IT Patient-Centered Families Family 99

GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

Part of that, as you’re alluding to, Eric, is this relationship with authority and with rules and word association, teenage rebellion. So if a young person is saying, “I’m going to try my 10th round of chemotherapy even though I physically am suffering. It’s very fraught. It’s a lot of work.

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IT Families Family Illness 83

GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Tell me how your illness has impacted your relationships with others, your healthcare team, your family, friends, your beliefs, your values, your preferences. You would love this because in that story that was in that patient CHR was a particular song that had meant a lot to this individual. Tell me about your illness.

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 106

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

You get me with one-finger-chords on the guitar if you’re watching on YouTube (best I could manage). Panelists Bill Gardner, Sonu Gaind, Leonie Herx have stated they have no relationships to disclose. So it started off for individuals with a terminal illness. This physician had never discussed my suffering at all.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

Eric 06:58 It could be CPR in an individual with metastatic cancer in the icu. That could include a robust home care plan to manage his symptoms. And so often, like, if you have a good relationship with them and you can understand what that root is, there’s so many other ways to come at it and they’re willing to back away.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 79

GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

And I actually shared that story with Bonnie’s manager and she just thought it was pretty cool that the whole thing had come full circle, the song that she was inspired by them and then they were so moved by the song that she wrote. I am there with individuals who are dying. So that touches you. I work at the VA.

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IT Families Family Board-Certified 97

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Eric 23:45 Yeah, I love that, too, because I think that one for me really is, can our interventions need to target the patient population that we’re managing? It’s about establishing a relationship and rapport. We did not just rely on a physical symptom measure, which many of our colleagues are doing.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 120

GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

was supported by the fossil fuel industry , because it shifted responsibility for change from industry to individuals. So it’s hard to know about individual practice when I think of geriatrics or geriatric nursing because a lot of the solutions are really broad scale public health initiatives are needed, don’t you think?

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Healthcare IT Education Hospital 130

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley have no relationships to disclose. So how physically active the patient is, how much time they spend awake, how much they’re eating, how much care they need, that type of thing. Eric 05:50 Yeah.

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Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 108

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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Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 80

Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

Tertiary Prevention: Managing Existing Conditions Tertiary preventive care focuses on managing existing chronic diseases to prevent complications, improve quality of life, and reduce the negative impact of disease. These measures are taken after a disease has been diagnosed. These measures are taken after a disease has been diagnosed.

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