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How to Prepare for Your Preventive Care Visit

Mesa Family Physician

Your provider updates this information at each visit to maintain an accurate picture of your health journey. Consider creating a health folder containing this information that you update and bring to each appointment. Health tracking apps can help maintain this information systematically.

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

GeriPal

Thats my main take-home point after learning from our three guests today when talking about trauma-informed care, an approach that highlights key principles including safety, trustworthiness, peer support, collaboration, empowerment, and cultural sensitivity. Eric 00:15 And we have three guests to help us talk about trauma informed care.

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Palliative Care Pioneer: Susan Block

GeriPal

Susan led the Project on Death in America’s Faculty Scholars program , used her dual training in internal medicine and psychiatry to shine a light on psychosocial aspects of palliative care, and founded the Department of Psychosocial Care at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. . That was one thing.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

We discuss the principles of harm reduction, social determinants of health, and trauma informed care. How are the health systems designed or not designed to meet the needs of people experiencing homelessness? What we hear is that it is more trauma informed in many contexts to have people first language.

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Plenary Abstracts at AAHPM/HPNA: Yael Schenker, Na Ouyang, Marie Bakitas

GeriPal

And then we incorporated that information into the consultation process. Later on, of course, we added health professionals to, you know, give us more information. You just email them or email them information on prepare for your care. And 40 or 60% of them, they had enough prognostic information. Yael 21:10 Yeah.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

I’ve been on a quest to build those services and support so that people can make true, informed decisions for themselves and their families. I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. Eric: Great, thank you both.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

GeriPal

And I was an internal medicine resident. Every time you experience pain, it is informed by so many different things. Let’s say you get stuck in a trap and you might scream, is to inform other people that there might be a threat or to inform other people that you may not be able to do a certain task because you are hurt.