GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

So in our trial, because of security reasons, we are required by Health Canada to store the substance in a special secure area in my office. So classically with preparation, in individual settings or even in group settings, you have one or two people supporting people through psychoeducation, what to expect, life review.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Anne: Well, speaking of your kids, a very special, sometimes listener, chimed in named Ren Smith. laugher] Alex: And, so we put them together and I feel like there’s been a real coming together of the Geriatrics and Palliative care communities and sort of cross-fertilization between the two and efforts between the two.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

Usually I don’t put a lot of background on this podcast, but I got to … in November of 2022, Ava Kofman, along with ProPublica, published … well I won’t want to say great, published an article in The New Yorker that I think it was divisive in the hospice and palliative care community. Eric: Great. Now it’s 70%.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Next, we talk with James Deardorff about whether we can accurately predict nursing home level of care in community-dwelling older adults with dementia. Eric 00:13 And Alex, we have a super special today, three different articles. Alex 00:18 Prognosis, super special today. Eric 00:09 Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

He created fee for service, special fee for depression. Eric: … you’re getting paid for individual encounters, not going to people’s homes, not being paid for all of the additional support that’s needed for comprehensive cancer care. Number one, number of days you are in the community. Think about CPC+.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

And the Ryan Haight Act I think was passed in 2008, which was in response to a young person who died of an opioid overdose. And I think that it was percolating in a lot of the palliative care community. We were the highest utilizers of telemedicine in the whole UCSF health system at that time which we’re very proud of.

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