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. Eric: So you both published a paper in JAGS, what, 2018, ’19 looking at what happens to people? Same thing with kind of medication management. Katie: Awesome.

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GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

But the other was she read an article about our hospice in the May of 2018 New York Times magazine. And I actually shared that story with Bonnie’s manager and she just thought it was pretty cool that the whole thing had come full circle, the song that she was inspired by them and then they were so moved by the song that she wrote.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

I want to say like 2017, 2018, something like that. And then when I did residency in internal medicine first, there was just a lot of focus on a lot of heroic management in the ICU that didn’t always appeal to me without thinking about what the morbidity might look like. It was amazing. It was really, really crazy. Alex: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

In this podcast, we cover a great deal of ground, including: Early challenges Dr. Raj faced in pain management: access to opioids, corruption, a system that doesn’t see addressing suffering as a priority. But from what we read was much better as century back, is in communities manage their own affairs.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

On todays podcast, weve invited Nathaniel Chin back to the GeriPal podcast to talk about what primary care needs to manage this new world of Alzheimers disease effectively. And then the family tells me they can’t keep an appointment, they can’t manage their finances. Well, there’s my complaint. So now, again.

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

Daneila Lamas wrote about this issue in the New York Times this week -after we recorded – in her story, a family requested an herbal infusion for their dying mother via feeding tube. Jill Schneiderhan, a family medicine and integrative medicine doc, helps us think through this. Ivermectin to treat cancer. Stem cell treatments.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

We invited three geriatricians and memory care doctors, Nate Chin, Sharon Brangman, and Jason Karlawish, to talk about this question and many others swirling around on how to safely prescribe these drugs and manage patients on them (like what to do about anticoagulation). Remember, family member. And that could extend beyond 18 months.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

And so this is our way of supporting non English speaking families in advanced care planning. But most people with dementia are initially diagnosed and medically managed in primary care, and they really desire clinicians to initiate these conversations but there are a number of really important barriers for these conversations taking place.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

We see our patients and our families throughout the illness trajectory into the hospital. And so the definition of advance care planning really switched in, I think, 2017, 2018, there was kind of a United States definition and then an international consensus definition. It’s hard for your family to know. [laughter].

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Look also for a forthcoming article by Mike and Redwing in Journal of Pain and Symptom Management on poetry as a healing modality, to be published mid May (will add link when out). That’s coming out in JP… Redwing: JPSM, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, yeah. Eric: Like since a little kid? Eric: Yeah? Redwing: Yeah.

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