GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . My Life, My Story: VA’s healthcare improvements through deliberate storytelling – YouTube. Summary Transcript Summary. Eric and I weren’t sure what to call this podcast – storytelling and medicine? Narrative medicine? It’s since spread to over 70 VAs.

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BMJ

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

It is imperative for policy makers, school administrators, healthcare professionals, and parents to become aware of these emerging dangers and take appropriate steps, like what has been done for the opioid epidemic. doi: 10.1136/fmch-2020-000374. Accessed 02/05/2020. 3 To respond to this crisis, the U.S.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Well-being committees are popping up at every level of an organization. And C-suites now have chief wellness officers sitting at the table. Eric 01:54 Why’d you pick this song, Naomi? Naomi 01:57 Because it really talks about this beautiful experience of our beloved, which is ourselves, the part that we often cut out of the equation.

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

2011-2014 JAMDA 2020 Efficacy of Gabapentinoids: Gabapentinoids for Pain: Potential Unintended Consequences. By 2015 that number increased to 4% of US adults. There are a lot of reasons that may explain the massive increase in use of these drugs. One thing is clear, it is not because people are using it for FDA approved indications.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

I’ve seen this question come up a lot since finishing fellowship nearly two decades ago. Historically, answers generally lamented the ever increasing need for geriatrics without a corresponding growth in the number of specialists in the field. Mike, welcome to GeriPal. Mike: Great to be here. Alex: We’ll take any Warriors we can get.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Eric: And somebody told me you’re a professional tambourine player. Fayron: I think I was interested in family caregiving early on because I had it in my family, but it wasn’t until my postdoc days when I was writing my application that I needed to narrow it down. African American? Black/African American?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition. That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. Ann: No, he was very excited.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It’s like how liberating it is to eliminate resentments, regrets and envy from our lives and how great it is in our clinical practice when we’re able to help families reconcile after an estrangement, how much relief that brings. The answers to these questions will vary. Reasonable people will disagree. Welcome, Karl.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

You were on a National Academy of Sciences committee started in 2020? He’s a geriatrician and Chair of Public Policy for the California Association of Long-Term Care Medicine. Welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Mike. I hope I got that right. Mike: You got it right. Great to be back. Jasmine: Yes. Eric: Can I ask why? Jasmine: Yes.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Today we’re going to be talking about narrative writing specifically for healthcare professionals. What motivated you to reach out to the healthcare audience in this way? My entree into healthcare is not in the academic space at all. So unlike academic journals and elsewhere. Liz: That’s right. Lovely song.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

One final note on the song request: About 20 years ago I took an epidemiology course as part of a Masters program. The instructor, Fran Cook , gave all the students a survey without explanation. We answered the survey and handed it in. One of the questions was, “Can you name a song by the Tragically Hip?” Eric 00:18 Throwing us off.

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BMJ

MAY 10, 2022

Family physicians and family health workers, considered reliable sources of vaccine information, have a unique position where individuals in rural and urban areas can access frequently, uninterruptedly, cheaply, and easily [2]. Two hundred seventy-six of the healthcare professionals were reached (response rate: 85.4%).

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GeriPal

MAY 26, 2022

The basis of their argument is the ethical notion of “reciprocity” – people who are vaccinated have done something to protect the public health, and we owe them something for taking that action. Eric and I attempt to poke holes in their arguments, resulting in a spirited discussion. Evusheld is the latest case in point. . Alex: Love this.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I cant do the primary thing Ive been trained to do: ABC, ABC, ABCs. 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. They got training in Vital Talk and ELNEC. They got feedback. So did it matter? Fernanda 01:16 I do have a song request.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Another interpretation is that clinicians avoided telling the parents prognosis in order to bolster their ratings of trust and communication quality. Which is it? Garfunkel says Simon was writing about Garfunklels friend and college roomate Sandy, who was blind. Whos got the right of it? Na 01:01 Yes, I requested the song. We’ll see.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Mariah discussed her JAGS paper on applying a trauma-informed approach to home visits. Kate and Ashwin talked about their research on the prevalence of lifetime trauma and its association with physical and psychosocial health among adults at the end of life. Mariah, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Mariah 00:29 Glad to be here. Here we go.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary To my teenagers, climate change is an existential crisis. It’s the end of the world as we know it. They decry the lack of serious attention and prioritization this issue has in the US. My kids ask – why don’t adults care about this issue the same way that they and their friends care about it? Ruth: Thank you.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

December 2020. So many times, family caregivers have to argue with their loved ones about getting more help in the home or moving them to a place that has safety, has close proximity to medical care. Training Hospitalists in Negotiations to Address Conflicts with Older Adults around Their Social Needs. Geriatrics. Transcript.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

You’d imagine though that our professional expertise and experiences in helping patients and families cope with loss and grief would be helpful in managing our own personal losses. These debriefings create a safe outlet for health care professionals to talk about the feelings resulting from their work. Turns out, it’s maybe not.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Administration on Aging connecting you to services for older adults and their families California’s Master Plan for Aging New York’s Master Plan for Aging Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Summary Transcript Summary You may have heard of Area Agencies on Aging, but do you really know what they do or how they do it?

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Redwing: So I grew up in a pretty intellectual family, but my brother and sister were six and 10 years older than me, and they were always feeding me literature and poetry. The impossiblity which is life, which is everything, and death, which is the end of life. To let it go. . Poetry helps us grapple with our own experiences of illness.

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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 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.”

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

This was the opening paragraph that I wrote in March of 2020 when introducing a podcast we did with Dr. Jim Wright , the medical director at Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in suburban Richmond. That was his literally his life during those spring months of 2020 and it scared the hell out of me. . Darrell: Yes.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. In addition to discussing these outcomes, we also discuss: The history of the hospital-at-home movement. The practicalities of how it works including who are good candidates, where does it start (the ED?), How is it financed and what comes next? Annals of Int Med. Thanks, Bruce.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary In March 2020, we launched our first podcast on COVID-19. Over the past four years, we’ve seen many changes—some positive, some negative. While many of us are eager to move past COVID (myself included), it’s clear that COVID is here to stay. Lona, welcome back to GeriPal. Lona 00:21 It’s great to be here.

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GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

Well, on today’s podcast we invite Monica Gandhi to sum up the evidence to date about how best to prevent getting COVID (or at least the severe outcomes of the disease) and how to treat it, including the role of Paxlovid in symptomatic disease. A good twitter criticism of the CDC 1 in 5 COVID survivors have long COVID study. Transcript. Alex: Great.

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GeriPal

JULY 16, 2024

On the one hand, they have concerns about cognitive fitness of candidates for office. On the other hand, they worry about ageism. There’s something happening here, and what it is ain’t exactly clear. We need clear eyed thinking about this issue. We do not endorse or disclose our personal attitudes toward any particular candidate. Ken 02:33 Bravo.

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GeriPal

APRIL 17, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary I read Farah Stockmans article in the NYT on why attacks on DEI will cost us all , and thought, Yes, and everyone includes harm to our healthcare workforce, our patients, and their families. What a Wonderful World could be sung in irony at this moment. Alex Smith ** This podcast is not CME eligible.

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