GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

nursing homes grapple with serious illnesses, and roughly half experience dementia. 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.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

And that grew into a group of volunteers coming back and at least providing support groups, giving those men a place where they could talk at least. So in 2010, there were about 150,000 incarcerated people in California. But now we have older people dying of older people illnesses. So we’ve gone from 150,000 to 100,000.

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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

And is there a middle path to provide some degree of comfort while also hastening the end of life? We discussed what makes an illness terminal, what goes into assessing capacity for an action as simple as requesting something to drink, and whether the TV show Severance illuminates any of these answers. So a ton to talk about.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Chris 07:41 Yeah, it’s a really interesting thing, because the 2010 article was solving the problem of, hey, send us patients, we promise we won’t kill them. Alex 12:36 And most of our listeners are like clinician, practicing clinicians caring for older adults, people with serious illness. That was the initial.

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PEMBlog

MAY 9, 2024

Febrile seizures are due to the degree of fever, not the rate of temperature rise, even though we see them as the temperature is increasing rapidly in the early parts of the illness. The majority of children have febrile seizures on the first day of illness. In some cases, it’s actually their first manifestation of illness.

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