GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

To be eligible in Canada patients must have a “ grievous and irremediable ” condition, including disability ; they do not have to have a terminal illness with a prognosis of less than 6 months. A planned expansion of MAID to include people with mental illness was placed on hold until March 2024. So less than six months to live.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

As she said, when you think about the hardest patients you’ve cared for, in nearly all cases there was some aspect of psychological illness involved. Today we talk with two psychologists who are deeply invested in addressing psychological aspects of care for people living with serious illness. That rings true to me.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

all of whom focus their efforts on educating the general public about living and dying with a serious illness. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Summary Transcript Summary On today’s podcast, we’ve invited four hospice and palliative care social media influencers (yes, that’s a thing!),

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Not the most common circumstances that people with serious illness face where attention and understanding of what my goals and values are. ” And, that we should find innovative ways of outreach and meeting the needs of people with serious illness in rural areas.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 17, 2025

However, if we could make it work, it would really be a game-changer — from saving terminally ill patients to solving one of the main problems of interstellar travels. At The Medical Futurist, we are building a community for making a bold vision about the future of healthcare reality today.

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Community Medical IT Healthcare Professional 111

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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IT Healthcare Healthcare Professional Patient-Centered 111

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. I mean, it’s just such a high risk population in terms of advancing illness and disability, often cognitive in nature.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 109

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Bernie Lo discloses being an Honorarium Recipient and consultant for Takeda starting on 01/23/2024. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. They were seriously ill and had a chance to get to know. And the goal about treating reversible illness that we tried to put in with that got taken out.

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Family Families Patient-Centered IT 112

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The illness narratives suffering, healing, and the human condition. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. The post The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Pain Manag Nurs. 2023.11.004.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

nursing homes grapple with serious illnesses, and roughly half experience dementia. JAGS 2024 Nursing Home Palliative Care Referral Process, Barriers, and Proposed Solutions: A Qualitative Study. We can’t possibly provide enough care to all people with serious illness. Consider this: the majority of the 1.4

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

We also briefly mention Susan Wong’s terrific studies that found a disconnect between older adults with renal failure’s expressed values, focused on comfort, and their advance care planning and end-of-life care received, which focused on life extension; and another study that found quality of life was sustained until late in the illness course.

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Management Patient-Centered Patients IT 116

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. We get a bit of, in the veteran population, kind of a mix of a lot of mental health issues thrown into these comorbid illnesses, including cirrhosis, but it’s usually the decompensated cirrhotics or the folks with liver cancer and cirrhosis, or one of both.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. And PAIR stands for the Palliative and Advanced Illness Research Center. So, Alex, imagine you’re a seriously-ill hospitalized patient and I’m your doctor, unluckily for you. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.

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Consulting Hospital Patient-Centered IT 121

GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

We discussed what makes an illness terminal, what goes into assessing capacity for an action as simple as requesting something to drink, and whether the TV show Severance illuminates any of these answers. But before we talk about this subject, about nutrition, hydration at the end of life, people with advanced illness, or maybe not so much.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 88

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. Good night, everybody.

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IT Patient-Centered Family Families 99

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Louise 05:02 Yes, well, I don’t know about 2024, but in 2023, yes, it could happen. You know, she would have had 90 really good years, and she would have just gone into a coma with no blood pressure and died, you know, with, like, a day and a half of illness. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Alex 12:36 And most of our listeners are like clinician, practicing clinicians caring for older adults, people with serious illness. Eric 21:46 So this study showed that in people with chronic critical illness, having palliative care lead one and a half sessions in an ICU around prognosis and goals. This 2024 is the year of AI.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Alex 02:44 Still suffering from some illness from there, which is why I was sick and not in the office with Eric today. And interesting enough, this is a really fascinating study that just got published in JAMA I M in December of 2024. Like, how close to the end of life is it all just in seriously ill patients, I guess.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 79

GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary As Betty Ferrell says on our podcast today, nurses play an essential role in care of people with serious illness. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Who spends the most time with the patient in the infusion center? Doing home care? Hospice visits? In the ICU at the bedside?

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Consulting 119

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

The PPS is one of the most widely used prognostic tools for seriously ill patients, but the prognostic estimates given by the PPS are based on data that is well over a decade old. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Why do this? For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu. Kara 04:09 Sure.

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Family Families Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

APRIL 11, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. We had a seriously ill surrogate who lost capacity, who assigned two people to be his surrogate decision makers and wanted them to split decision making 50-50. Subscribers will claim MOC credit by completing an evaluation with self-reflection questions.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

Alex 28:22 That’s not in the vital talk, serious illness, communication. Sean 45:09 Yeah, I mean, I think we have to solve all our social ills to solve this one in certain ways. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. This is not the way you break. Sean 28:29 But that’s the.

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IT Family Families Patient-Centered 113

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.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Our conversation covers: The current state of COVID Evidence for COVID boosters, who should get them, and preferences between Novavax and mRNA vaccines COVID treatments like Molnupiravir and Paxlovid Differences in COVID impact on nursing home residents and those with serious illnesses We wrap up with a “magic wand” question. Eric 33:08 Yeah.

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Vaccination IT Patient-Centered Patients 127

GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Or, to phrase the question for 2024, Can AI do better? Ill end this intro with a quote from Deb Grady in an editors commentary to our thought piece in JAMA Internal Medicine about this topic: Voice technology that creates a searchable database of patients every encounter with a health care professional? Can we do better?

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