GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

I am part of some other work in the ICU world looking at time-limited trials and trying to better define what those are, how we talk about them, how we talk about them with patients and families. Eric: And that’s similar to the 2016 JAMA paper, right? Did it negate everything from the 2016 trial?Palliative

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

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. As a nurse case manager in hospice, half of my patients had dementia. And I had a blast playing Take the Money and Run! AlexSmithMD.

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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.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. So like I said, I got to meet Thor, I believe it was May, 2016. Heather: Sure.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Management of chronic pain in the elderly: focus on transdermal buprenorphine. So I have thought about this for months, maybe years since your 2016, cycle blog, but we have picked Under Pressure by David Bowie and Queen. And how am I going to manage their pain? Two great videos on buprenorphine initiation. Transcript.

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PEMBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Learn all about diagnosis and management of this common problem in this brief podcast episode. 2016 Apr;83:78-83. So this management is conservative, includes upright feeding, antireflux therapy, so alterations to how you Feed, burp, and position. Isaac A, Zhang H, Soon SR, Campbell S, El-Hakim H. Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol.

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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. You get me with one-finger-chords on the guitar if you’re watching on YouTube (best I could manage). Four percent. But that was separate from MAID.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I think back in what, May 2016, you published a randomized controlled trial, first author, palliative care and the ED randomized study, cancer patients. Eric 04:26 So that 2016 study was in the ED, but it was getting specialty palliative care to see them when they were hospitalized, is that right? Primary outcome was quality of life.

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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. Just an extraordinary cast of individuals who were really so incredibly inspiring.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

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. This was something you were … You’re a grieving daughter and also trying to manage probably a lot of other things during the pandemic.

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BMJ

JUNE 25, 2021

Findings from a longitudinal study using primary care records, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e000780. This can also be seen in the sequential treatment decisions in managing cardiac risk 3 and the alternating statin therapy usage. Health Survey for England 2016: Prescribed Medicines.; 2017;390(10100):1345-1422.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

God, it must have been like 2015, 2016. This is a particularly interesting topic because we know that individuals with dementia have a high rate of entering nursing home. That just leads to issues that can make home care very difficult for these individuals. Eric 10:09 So you’re reassured on that concern there.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

What are the structural factors and individual factors that contribute to homelessness? ” On that grand rounds, you differentiated structural factors from … I forget what the word was, individual- Margot: Individual risk factors. Why do we say “over 50” is “older” for homeless persons, why not 65? Margot: After 50.

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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.” Malaz: I love it.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

Robert was first asked by one of his own patients for assistance in dying in 1991, far before aid in dying was legalized in California in 2016. He has an interest in hospice and of life care, pain management and medical ethics. Today, medical aid in dying is legal in some 10 states, and illegal in others. . I got it the second time.

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