GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

Should we use Ozempic (if we can find it) in patients with serious illness, which often results in undesirable and profound weight loss? They know how to manage a lot of these back at home and in the community, so giving them that sense of control even towards the end is I think hugely important. Listen in to learn more!

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: We analyzed data from a prospective, community-based, and laboratory-supported household transmission study to determine how SIR changed over 18 months and three waves of SARS-CoV-2 variants, and which household factors may have been associated with SIR. 21.37] P=0.001).

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. In their communities? The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Unpacking characteristics of spirituality through the lens of persons of colour living with serious illness: The need for nurse-based education to increase understanding of the spiritual dimension in healthcare. What Mattered Then, Now, and Always: Illness Narratives From Persons of Color. Tell me about your illness.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Feyron has centered her work in Black/African American faith communities and churches – a program she titled Alter. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Fayron Epps, who is associate professor and director of Community and Research Engagement at the School of Nursing at Emory. Why this focus? Karen: Thank you. Alex: Great.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

We really spent a lot of time helping the clinicians see that a patient’s illness, understanding and prognostic awareness was just as important as their pain scale, their pain score. The patient refuses to ever talk about the fact that this illness could take their life. Lynn, what were you doing in Covid 2020?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Ann: Well, I think teamwork is key in this space and I am a big baseball fan, big Red Sox fan, which is not a good thing to be right now, but I really think it’s indicative of how we should all be working together on this team to help our seriously ill patients. Ann: No, he was very excited. And oh, guess what?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

And we have Scott Halpern, who is Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy and Director of the Palliative and Advanced Illness Research Center or Payer Center at the University of Pennsylvania. What I’m saying is the entire field of serious illness care has for decades been plagued by a really weak evidence base.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

We covered some of our questions on the podcast, others you can ponder on your own or in your journal clubs, including: Maries tele/video palliative care intervention was tailored/refined with the help of a community advisory board. Eric 04:27 Yeah, I gotta ask about the community advisor. So I don’t want my Marin community to.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

So we take that science and we apply it to something that’s very messy and chaotic, like a human being or a community or a population. I think it started off from a need, a hunger in the community. But I really wanted this project to be a love letter to that community. A love letter kind of back to my community.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The illness narratives suffering, healing, and the human condition. There’s so many things that are happening, but I think we’re still just learning as a community to bring all of the professions together, all of our wisdom with the wisdom of the people to really learn, how do we actually address that? Pain Manag Nurs.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

I’m just thinking we all went through a major traumatic event in 2020 and the subsequent years. Certainly a lot of communities we’re thinking about LA right now and the collective trauma that they’re experiencing from the fires. Eric 04:55 Does it need an experience directly? So we all went through a pandemic.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

And also, by the fall of 2020, I was pretty sure that I didn’t want to be a leader anymore. That sense of community in the workplace has changed substantially, and we don’t know the mid or long term impact, and we truly don’t know how it’s going to affect professional well being. I can make decisions quickly.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Poetry helps us grapple with our own experiences of illness. I had planned to start doing in-person poetry sessions with cancer patients at the beginning of 2020. Redwing: I did the first week of March in 2020, and then as we all know, the world shut down and changed. To let it go. . Alex: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

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BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

By John Scott Frazer, Glenn Ross Frazer Reference : Frazer JS , Frazer GR, Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e001143.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

December 2020. Dealing with conflict in caring for the seriously ill: “it was just out of the question” JAMA 2005. Are you willing to move into a senior community? Training Hospitalists in Negotiations to Address Conflicts with Older Adults around Their Social Needs. Geriatrics. Journal of Patient Experience.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

I t’s a collection of personal stories of a small number of health professionals, including Craig Blinderman and Susan Block , who have been struck by personal illness and loss. And then to see her show up in our hospice unit in April of 2020, it just completely broke my heart. And it was the first time I recognized someone.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary In March 2020, we launched our first podcast on COVID-19. Eric 03:29 Lona, I am not sure you remember this, but over four years ago, March, mid March of 2020, we did a podcast on a novel respiratory virus that was coming out of Wuhan. I remember that early American Idol is so good. Thank you, Peter.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

If you are interested in learning more and meeting a community of folks interested in hospital-at-home, check out the hospital-at-home user group at hahusersgroup.org or some of these publications: Hospital-Level Care at Home for Acutely Ill Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Annals of Int Med. There are some subtleties there.

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GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

Eric: All right, before we start talking about COVID in older adults and those with serious illness, do you have a song request for Alex? it was April, 2020. We’re actually lower of COVID deaths in this country than we’ve ever been since March of 2020. So really very honored to have you on here. Monica: Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 17, 2025

Ali talks about the history of affirmative action, which started as a program for Whites , the importance of diversity in the healthcare workforce , the history of allyship and cross cultural collaboration, and his own efforts to provide opportunity and support for historically oppressed groups in his own community to obtain healthcare careers.

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