GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And then, the family, her kids got together, my wife and her brother and sister got together and said, wait a minute, mom did not want this, right? So when I was a resident at Cleveland Clinic, I got to see really cutting-edge technology, some of the best surgeons in the country, and perhaps in the world, operating on patients.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Eric: I do not want my family to listen to my podcasts. So, I generally don’t listen to the podcast afterwards, nor force them on my family. But when we have people in rural areas of California, so we don’t know our clinical site, we go from San Francisco all the way to the Northern California border, super rural areas.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

And yet, we know little about the clinical experience of people with dementia in hospice. And yet, disenrollment from hospice, either due to patient/family revoking the benefit or stabilization of illness (extended prognosis) is remarkably high for people with dementia among some hospices. AlexSmithMD. Transcript. Melissa: Sure.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Why this study was a success due to the sheer size (nearly 100,000 patients in about 30 EDs) of the study, and the fact that, as far as the investigators know, all study sites continue to employ the clinical decision support tool. And then we had clinical decision support. What is a cluster stepped wedge randomized trial? Long overdue.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

This is my early father’s day gift from the family. But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families. Alex: I’ve got to show you the back of the Jersey. Eric: Yeah. Alex: That’s right. Jennifer: Oh nice.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Eric: Well, what are the odds that two family members focus on a similar topic and do research together? laughter] Alex: We love the family theme. Wait, first of all, what’s the incidence of calling EMS for falls over almost a decade, I think like 2007 to 2016, and what happens to people afterwards? Katie: Awesome.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

So I first want to just say thank you to Ernesto’s family. And I met with his family over Zoom, which was how many of us had to meet with families during that time. We were doing a lot of this without a whole lot of guidance, as is common, I think, from family, because all they knew was who he was. Sunita: Yes.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

The number of people who have used MAID in Canada since it was legalized in 2016 has increased year on year from about 1,000 people in the first year to over 13,000 people in 2022. Alex: We’re delighted to welcome Leonie Herx, who’s a palliative care physician and clinical professor at the University of Calgary. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Today we’re going to be talking about narrative writing specifically for healthcare professionals. As I was cleaning up my office, I found something I’d written in 2016. ” I think that’s what I’m talking about with action, or it might be family leave policies. Liz: That’s right.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Harvey is probably best known for his work in developing dignity therapy, a psychological intervention designed specifically to address many of the psychological, existential, and spiritual challenges that patients and their families face as death approaches. Which is… In fact, I was approached by the Mayo Clinic recently.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Eric 04:39 Yeah, I see it used on inpatient, side on consult clinics in hospices. Eric 07:03 And those classic studies, were those done in the hospital and PALP care units and clinic? The folks that we were seeing either in clinic or inpatient, were probably a lot sicker than the ones that we’re seeing now.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

I would talk about this, except I was a clinician, and I’m seeing these folks in the hospital and in clinic. The journal section’s requirements are the same as for a clinical investigation. White folks who are homeless are often folks who have cut ties with their families for a variety of reasons. Margot: Yeah.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” 2015, 2016.

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