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Understanding Growth Hormone Treatment via Online Care in Canada

Dr. Zaar

Online endocrinology services offer: Timely Consultations: Say goodbye to long waits for in-person referrals. Platforms like Maple, WELL Health, and various provincial telehealth programs—such as Telehealth Ontario and HealthLink BC—provide dependable online endocrinology services throughout Canada. Are These Services Covered?

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Telehealth vs In-Person Palliative Care: A Podcast with Joseph Greer, Lynn Flint, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson

GeriPal

In the other corner, we have the young upstart, able to reach patients across vast distances when delivering palliative care, all in the comfort of wearing pajamas, we have telehealth delivered palliative care. Eric 01:08 On the other, we have the young upstart telehealth delivered palliative care. Consultations versus telehealth.

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

GeriPal

The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. We also take a dive into these 2 articles that Connie first authored: Palliative care in nursing homes: A qualitative study on referral criteria and implications for research and practice. And what does that referral process look like? So that part we know and I.

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Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

GeriPal

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Do we have any information on that, do you know? Or delivering them through telehealth, and we can talk about that. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

So we looked at hospital referral regions, and we looked at high- and low- intensity regions. Ruth: Decision-making processes, we saw the lower nursing homes tended to have a clear process for advanced care planning and for decision making to include families in an informed decision. Isn’t this just a difference?”

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

GeriPal

This DEA is taking 6-months to consider how to move forward vis a vis restrictions and requirements for telehealth in a post-pandemic world. So we’re going to be talking about telemedicine, telehealth for people with serious illness. Brooke: So I think of telehealth as the umbrella. Now is the time to act, dear listeners!