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. I was really passionate about helping the people and also their families. There has to be more than this. Eric: Yeah.

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Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

According to the CDC, “About 697,000 people in the United States died from heart disease in 2020– that’s 1 in every 5 deaths”. Know Your Values: Please go see your primary care physician to get blood tests done. Family Genetics: If you can, ask your loved ones about their medical history (especially parents and siblings).

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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. And so I knew that I wanted to do something related to palliative care because I work with people with advanced and serious illness.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

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. I’m just thinking we all went through a major traumatic event in 2020 and the subsequent years. Well, being a pretty comprehensive definition. Eric 04:19 Yeah.

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GeriPal

MAY 26, 2022

Eric: But if we’re using organ donation example, there are really no physical benefits for the organ donor. To that point, in your article, you note that vaccination rates among blacks and Latinx individuals have been higher than whites according to a Kaiser Family Health news report.

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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. 2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care.

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