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. Going into patient’s homes was eye opening. They were stunned by the number of calls for lift assistance for older adults who had fallen.

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Community Transportation IT PCP 115

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. But watch out! Travel time can leave this champ vulnerable to fatigue and no-shows.

Telehealth 105

Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Does it improve outcomes that patients, caregivers, and clinicians care about? hint: 80% can be done in advance by patients or caregivers) Why is it that some oncologists are resistant to conducting a geriatric assessment, yet have no problem ordering tests that cost thousands of dollars? Welcome back, William. William: Thanks so much.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

As she said, when you think about the hardest patients you’ve cared for, in nearly all cases there was some aspect of psychological illness involved. Then, “Keep your hand up if you frequently refer patients with cancer pain to a psychologist?” That rings true to me. All hands go up. All hands go down.

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Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

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? Patients have all sorts of problems. And while they identified thousands of patients and enrolled. By diagnosis?

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Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis Referral 99

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

It’s a jampacked 50 minutes, filled with pearls on taking care of patients with liver disease. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. What’s the connection and why?

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

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. When I see a patient? Matthew, I get the lyrics.

Primary Care 113

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Initially, it was just because there weren’t really answers for my patients. Or somebody who has other physical cognitive problems at any age. We’re going to go into how to talk to patients about this, because Emmy, you’ve done some research on it. “When can I get back to driving?” Eric: Yeah.

Families 102

Families IT Family Diagnosis 102

PEMBlog

JANUARY 16, 2025

Formulate effective strategies for identifying, managing, and preventing inhalant misuse in pediatric patients. Interestingly, when these are sold, either online or in physical stores, theyre marketed As additives to make your own whipped cream at home. Patients that use these will repeatedly use it throughout the day.

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Complication Patient-Centered Management Patients 52

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

We discuss the principles of harm reduction, social determinants of health, and trauma informed care. 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. On bias and trauma as you.

Healthcare 100

Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Healthcare staff were afraid of patients with HIV because there wasn’t clarity on how it was transmitted. 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.

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Families Family IT Community 132

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Harvey is probably best known for his work in developing dignity therapy, a psychological intervention designed specifically to address many of the psychological, existential, and spiritual challenges that patients and their families face as death approaches. Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

As Alex Lee says on our podcast today, all prognostic models will be wrong (in some circumstances and for some patients); our job is to make prognostic models that are clinically useful. I think this is a really difficult topic to talk about with patients. She has a point. Prognosis is inherently uncertain.

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IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Today we have a star-studded lineup, including Lexy Torke of Indiana University, who discusses her RCT of a chaplaincy intervention for surrogates of patients in the ICU , published in JPSM and plenary presentation at AAHPM/HPNA. These studies are important. So, learn as many as you can and what they’re all about.

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IT Patient-Centered Families Family 99

GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Earlier this year palliative care was the correct response to the following clue on the game show Jeopardy: From a Latin word for “to cloak”, it’s the type of care given to seriously ill patients to provide comfort without curing. We know how to communicate with patients, but communicating with the public is a different beast.

Illness 101

Illness Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 101

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. What might be contributing?” Eric: Can we jump to the results?

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Nurse Practitioner Hospital Families Family 60

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Give too much, it may cause harm (even if the higher dose had no significant side effects, it would require patients to take a lot of unnecessary additional pills as well as increase the cost.) So, what is the effective dose of palliative care? Give too little – it may not work. Jennifer 04:25 I can take that on. Eric 05:32 Yeah.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary As Eric notes at the end of today’s podcast, we talk about many difficult issues with our patients. But one issue we’re not as good at discussing with our patients is sexual health. Clearly this issue is important to patients. You know, I address all the supportive care needs of my patients.

Illness 130

Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Only 5% of intervention patients received the facilitator-led component of the intervention (there were other components, facilitator-led was the most engaged component). I’m hearing dementia patients or patients with dementia. Eric 09:15 And then who were the patients just with dementia or were they. Is that right?

Primary Care 79

Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 79

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And it was really good for my mental and physical… Physical health, obviously, but mental health really. We see our patients and our families throughout the illness trajectory into the hospital. And maybe we should have more patient-centered conversations. Eric: Well, how about just with the debate? Eric: Yeah.

Illness 98

Illness Patient-Centered IT Families 98

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

Clinicians could care for patients across state lines, could prescribe opioids without in person visits, could bill at higher rates for telemedicine than previous to the pandemic. Many patients benefited, not only those isolating due to covid, but also patients in rural areas, patients who are homebound, and many others.

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Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

In our city of Victoria, for instance, many people do not have a family doctor because so many doctors have retired; those who are left are unable to take new patients because their lists are full. They gave me another referral and reported the practice to Medicare. I went home and wrote a complaint letter to my health plan.

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Vaccination Families Family Appointment 52