GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

And we got all into his family stuff and how he’d been suffering with cancer and his goal. Just encourage patients and families to bring music into their healthcare experience. We introduce it to families and patients and explain how it works and show them. And I’ve gotten really close to that family.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

We were never going to have all the geriatricians that folks had forecast, whether it was 25,000 in 2025 or 30,000 in 2030, we were never going to get there. Graduated in 2013, did a two-year clinician educator track. All this weight now is on your shoulder. Everybody’s saying respond. When did you start Fellowship Ryan?

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GeriPal

MAY 29, 2025

Today we talk about lucid episodes and what they might mean to the person with dementia, their family and loved ones, to philosophers, to clinicians, to neuroscientists. Particularly patients, families. Alex 06:05 And, oh, for that family, it was so meaningful. That their loved one is in there. Eric 01:34 Yeah. Eric 06:07 Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

Daneila Lamas wrote about this issue in the New York Times this week -after we recorded – in her story, a family requested an herbal infusion for their dying mother via feeding tube. Jill Schneiderhan, a family medicine and integrative medicine doc, helps us think through this. Ivermectin to treat cancer. Stem cell treatments.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 77

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And so it was really the patients, you know, the caregivers, the family members were the ones who were sort of the closest in observing. Later on, of course, we added health professionals to, you know, give us more information. And my community and about my family and those kinds of things. Our consultation. Marie 11:03 Yes.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

And it’s very traumatic obviously for the family and all of that and the team really. The one thing that we know is that education alone will not actually deliver behavior change. Does just communication education, has that been shown to work? ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2025.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

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. And the family says, dad would never want to live like this.

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

ELNEC (End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium) celebrates it’s 25th anniversary in 2025. He is a palliative care physician at the Durham VA Medical Center in Duke and blogs on Substack at Notes from a Family Meeting. Eric: So not from the patient perspective or family, but from the provider perspective? Hospice visits?

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Consulting 119

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

We focus on function and mortality because these are outcomes that really are important to patients and families. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2025. Lauren 19:01 Yeah, so in our second paper, we asked that exact question. What is your function? How are you functioning in your life after an event?

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Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

And so this is our way of supporting non English speaking families in advanced care planning. And I have a long interest in identifying family caregivers and supporting them in care delivery. And so this was really, in my view, a perfect window for reinforcing the role of family in primary care. Eric 02:32 Great, Alex.

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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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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

You can donate tax deductible donations to GeriPal so we can continue to produce t hese podcasts in 2025. You basically don’t even ask the family, you just stop the bleeding. Are you encountering family members who are just, like, at a loss for what to do and tortured it? Alex and I don’t make anything on it.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Alex 00:23 And we’re delighted to welcome Peter Chin-Hong, who is an infectious disease physician and medical educator, professor at UCSF and associate dean for regional campuses. The impact on families. But turns out that Jan1 and its family are all very similar. Lona, welcome back to GeriPal. The impact on.

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