GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. I want to say like 2017, 2018, something like that. Alex: Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

So for primary care providers, you order that blood test, you own that. So prior to the new criteria that were proposed in 2018, the criteria were the presence of amyloid in tau was the definition of Alzheimer’s disease. And a primary care provider has 18 minutes. And how can I expect a primary care provider to do that?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

I wonder if you could say a little bit more about the meta Institute in particular and what it is that clinicians today can do to learn, to be more present and learn about the need to be thoughtful and compassionate in the care that they provide people with serious illness. Frank, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Where can they go?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Juliet and Rachelle are two of the authors of a recent JAMA viewpoint titled “Shifting to Serious Illness Communication.” . Also see the image below from Alex’s editorial in JAGS , a Venn diagram of advance care planning and serious illness communication. Shifting to Serious Illness Communication. Transcript. What is it?

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Today’s podcast is a follow up to our 2018 podcast with Randy Curtis about the Jumpstart intervention. Today we discuss a new paper in JAMA that tests a stripped down version of the clinician only facing intervention in a pragmatic randomized trial for older adults with serious illness and those 80+.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Alex 02:44 Still suffering from some illness from there, which is why I was sick and not in the office with Eric today. And so a lot of it was the facilitators calling out with the approval of the provider to the patients ahead of time to see, like, you have a visit coming up. Alex (singing) Alex 02:34 All right, this was a fun one.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Poetry helps us grapple with our own experiences of illness. To the deeper emotions – of loss and grief, of wonder and transcendence – that are at the heart of the complex care we provide. To let it go. . Or as in Mark Nepo’s poem Adrift, I am so sad and everything is beautiful. AlexSmithMD .

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