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JANUARY 23, 2025

Emily 06:11 Yeah, we definitely have a pill for every ill. But I think there’s a lot on us and I don’t necessarily think that we’re doing anything with ill intent because we want to do right by our patients. It’s called Danton, and it was just published mid last year, mid 2024. Go ahead, Connie.

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

Alex is a triple-boarded (palliative care, internal medicine, and psychiatry) assistant professor of medicine at Stanford. 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.

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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. 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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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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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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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Today we are delighted to welcome Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, and Danny Scerpella, who conducted a pragmatic trial of advance care planning (ACP) in primary care practices; and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who wrote an accompanying commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine. Alex (singing) Alex 02:34 All right, this was a fun one.

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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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