Integrated Care News by CFHA

JUNE 12, 2025

On October 6, 2017, a van loaded with medical supplies departed from the Health Center, bound for the local airport. Sometimes, they push us to cross physical, emotional, or ethical boundaries—to reach those in need or to avoid being complicit through inaction.

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Community Integrated Care Patient-Centered Families 130

GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests George Kuchel & Alison Huang have no relationships to disclose. Is there any relationship between frailty and urinary incontinence? And we think about, are you somebody who could benefit from a medication or a procedure? George 14:23 Well, multiple.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Clinic 120

GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

And for people with dementia and their caregivers, who both feel very devalued in the social system, support systems, their communities, the medical system. So it’s about, to me, bringing that sector … Opening it up into a support system and bringing it into collaboration with the medical structures as well.

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Community IT Individual Patient-Centered 101

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

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. It’s not just about physical symptom management. It’s about instilling coping skills. But it’s a very different model. It’s about coping.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Wait, so one key message is that social health is linked to physical and cognitive health?!? Disruptive events are medical, surgical. And there is this bidirectional relationship between wealth and health shocks. And hospitalization for pneumonia is like a medical event. And the government can do something about that?!?

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Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 73

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, friend of the pod, Craig Blinderman, who’s Director of Adult Palliative Care Services and Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Because every time we remember a story, it’s changed physically in the brain.

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Healthcare Professional Healthcare IT Relationship 102