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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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Ishwaria 05:29 And that’s really how this field of professional well being, healthcare professional well being, clinician well being, has evolved, is that there is an important place in our overall professional well being for personal resilience and our individual coping strategies, recovery methods from day to day.

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

2011-2014 JAMDA 2020 Efficacy of Gabapentinoids: Gabapentinoids for Pain: Potential Unintended Consequences. These are families who are in distress. JAGS 2022 Trends in Antipsychotic and Mood Stabilizer Prescribing in Long-Term Care in the U.S.: AFP 2019 Gabapentin for chronic neuropathic pain in adults.

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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

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

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Big heat waves in England in 2020, 2,224 excess deaths in the obits over the age of 65. Eric: So as we start talking about things that we can do about it, maybe we can just start off with this thing of including it in the curriculum for healthcare professionals. What does that actually look like?

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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.” Everything.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. But as we talked to patients and providers, there was, really, this need for patients who wanted services, like IV antibiotics and IV fluids, but wanted to be able to spend that time at home, with their family, even if it meant it was their last days or weeks. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

it was April, 2020. We’re actually lower of COVID deaths in this country than we’ve ever been since March of 2020. Our department chair is always tweeting, and I think there was a fourth shot and then a mild infection in a family member. The day I knew we couldn’t eradicate it, remember the big cats in a zoo.

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JULY 16, 2024

We talk about positive aspects of aging, cognitive screening, the line between legitimate concerns and ageism, ableism, advice for a geriatrician asked to comment on TV, frailty and physical disability, images in the press , historical situations including , and an upper age limit for the Presidency, among other issues. Ken 21:39 Well, yes.

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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. Just in January, I remember having a conversation with a family that came in with a plan for end of life care.

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