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Does anyone have experience with Palliative Care?

Chronic Pain | Last Active: Jul 29 9:27am | Replies (154)

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@becsbuddy

@trishanna I’m sorry to hear that some of you don’t qualify yet for palliative care. We all need help as we get older! Earlier, I had mentioned geriatric care managers. They are usually masters educated nurses who try to help pull all the details together for their clients. They might be worth investigating. I’m going to see what I can find
https://www.homecarepulse.com/articles/national-association-of-professional-geriatric-care-managers/
https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/what-geriatric-care-manager

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@becsbuddy Sounds promising. I am looking right now for a new pcp and was hoping to find one specializing in geriatric medicine. My pcp has turned me over to an assistant physician, who barely knows what to say to me. She's also a by-the-book kind of person, allowing for no slight differences in folks. Alas, although we are a Midwestern medical center, no one has such a speciality, so I will be asking all my doctors if there is someone who seems a bit more involved with seniors. Since we are a center, and all my information is in that laptop doctors carry everywhere, I don't understand the lack of sharing of said information. In some cases, I suspect it's monetary concerns. Knowing my recovery from emergency surgery at a hospital would prevent my getting two simple blood tests I was scheduled for across the street at the clinic, I requested the hospital contact the clinic, get an order, and do the tests, or whatever would be the procedure. The answer was silence. And two months later, as I guessed, I'm still unable to get my tests. Looking forward to learning here, as I did with Palliative Care, so I thank you in advance.