GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. So folks that are having refractory ascites or refractory encephalopathies, challenging emotional symptom management as well. I think for families and for other providers who are not trained in that, it’s very hard to predict.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Many older adults lose decision-making capacity during serious illnesses, and a significant percentage lack family or friends to assist with decisions. He died in 2024. And so there’s complexity in Understanding how each state manages this. Alex 02:53 That’s great. Is that fair?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Jessie: Thank you.

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JUNE 27, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. I have so many questions, and I promise we’re going to get to the management of anxiety and serious illness. It’s to find a way to make the pain manageable, to allow other things into our lives that make our lives worth living, that add to this quality.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. They’re still engaging fully with their family and with the activities and the hobbies that they’re still able to do. Subscribers will claim MOC credit by completing an evaluation with self-reflection questions. I’m dying.” Just calling that out.

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Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

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

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Like, how do we help ourselves maintain psychological integrity in the face of the stressors that we have to manage? But if we’re going to have a family meeting, that’s a different circumstance. That’s how I managed without screaming at my 4 year old who was coping. So help serves and hinders in everybody.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 125

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Alex 00:20 Today we’re delighted and honored to welcome Eduardo Bruera, who is one of the biggest symptom management gurus, if not the biggest symptom management guru in palliative medicine. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.

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Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 133

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Eric: Well, what are the odds that two family members focus on a similar topic and do research together? laughter] Alex: We love the family theme. Same thing with kind of medication management. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

JAGS 2024 Nursing Home Palliative Care Referral Process, Barriers, and Proposed Solutions: A Qualitative Study. Kathleen 03:47 I think any of us who’ve spent any time in nursing homes have spent time working in a nursing home setting, have visited, had family members in nursing homes and looked around and seen the population there.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Eric: I do not want my family to listen to my podcasts. So, I generally don’t listen to the podcast afterwards, nor force them on my family. Alex: And, it means pain management. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu. laughter] Alex: Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. Practice-PC is an intentionally interprofessional and cutting edge year-long group continuing education course in palliative care for working professionals from all disciplines, in the Bay Area. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

A planned expansion of MAID to include people with mental illness was placed on hold until March 2024. You get me with one-finger-chords on the guitar if you’re watching on YouTube (best I could manage). ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. They could have a prognosis of years, or decades.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. And, of course, this is what families of patients undergoing palliative care go through. The post RCT of Default Inpatient PC Consults: Kate Courtright & Scott Halpern appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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Consulting Hospital Patient-Centered IT 120

GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

Alex 00:48 And we’re delighted to welcome back Josh Briscoe, who’s a palliative care doc at the Durham VA Medical center in Duke and blogs at Notes from a Family Meeting. And it was very clear, and she could now no longer recognize her family members. Thaddeus 00:46 Thank you. Joe, Josh, welcome back to Jerry Pal.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 87

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Eric 23:45 Yeah, I love that, too, because I think that one for me really is, can our interventions need to target the patient population that we’re managing? It’s not just about physical symptom management. So I don’t know how clinically meaningful that week difference was to families. Palliative care.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. And so we know that the decision to enter a nursing home is incredibly challenging for families, especially because it often comes with thoughts that they’re, like, abandoning their loved one, really. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. But at any age, like, as Emily said, it is so important to pay attention to nutrition and healthy eating because it’s not just about, oh, chronic disease prevention or even treatment and management. So I lived with a family there. Anna 27:19 This is it.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

And so this is our way of supporting non English speaking families in advanced care planning. And interesting enough, this is a really fascinating study that just got published in JAMA I M in December of 2024. And I have a long interest in identifying family caregivers and supporting them in care delivery. Eric 06:26 Great.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 79

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.” Malaz: I love it.

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Patient-Centered IT Families Family 125

GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

And then another, which was released under the Bush administration by a council with a different sort of philosophical Benton worldview which still managed to come to the same conclusion in support of a brain based definition, death. Patients families want to know whether their loved one has died. That’s one key interested party.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

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. By the year 2000, everyone will be in a Medicare managed care plan.”

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