GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

Jenny Chen is a palliative care fellow at Yale who regularly sings for her seriously ill patients. Jenny reached out to us because she plays music regularly for her patients, and she said, you should do a podcast about music. And I performed for many palliative patients, and that’s when I started to understand.

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The Physicians Foundation

MAY 20, 2025

The Physicians Foundation announces the 2025 recipient of the Drivers of Health (DOH) Fellowship Program, urges physicians to screen patients for DOH BOSTON, May 21, 2025 – Today, The Physicians Foundation reinforces its efforts to help physicians address drivers of health (DOH) to improve a person’s overall health.

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Chronic Disease Screening Transportation Patient-Centered 40

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

And I think a big part of that journey was just having that right time, that right moment, with the right network and support groups of individuals, including my family, to really lift me up and allow me to celebrate my authentic self. If we think of discrimination, how people are treated by their biological family. Caregivers too.

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Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 82

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.

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Families Family IT Patient-Centered 94

GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

We and our guests have noticed that in our clinical practices, patients and caregivers seem to be asking for such treatments more frequently. 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.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 79

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Jerry: Probably for the reason a lot of people go into geriatrics, close relationship with grandparents, volunteered to work in a nursing home as a high school student, just felt really good about being around old people and not having a problem with it. And he asked me questions like, “Why is this patient in bed?

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Board-Certified IT Community Medical Student 91

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

How to be sensitive to the risks of stereotyping based on recommendations from the few members of the board to the many heterogeneous patients served? I’m Marie Bakitas, and I’m a professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and also the associate Director of the center for Palliative and Supportive Care.

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Consulting Community Patient-Centered Families 64

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 78

GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

Recently, discussion has emerged about how these issues intertwine in caring for patients with advancing dementia who have stated that they would not want to continue living in that condition: for those with an advanced directive to stop eating and drinking, how do we balance caring for their rational past self and their experiential current self?

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 89

GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

Who spends the most time with the patient in the infusion center? ELNEC (End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium) celebrates it’s 25th anniversary in 2025. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Betty Ferrell has no relationships to disclose. Doing home care? Hospice visits?

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Consulting 121

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

And then when you see clinically patients coming into hospital, they’ll have, you know, they’ll be admitted for aspiration pneumonia. And there is this bidirectional relationship between wealth and health shocks. And so that’s been the classic model we think of for dementia. And health shocks. Alex 11:44 Right.

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Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 63

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Only 5% of intervention patients received the facilitator-led component of the intervention (there were other components, facilitator-led was the most engaged component). And so this is our way of supporting non English speaking families in advanced care planning. I’m hearing dementia patients or patients with dementia.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 80

Maine Academy of Family Physicians

JUNE 21, 2024

Pat Connolly & Cortney Linville who attended the AAFP Family Medicine Advocacy Summit in Washington May 19-21. Here's what Dr. Connolly had to say: "I was pleased and privileged to attend the AAFP Family Medicine Advocacy Summit again last month and represent our state.

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Family Physician Family Medicine DO Primary Care 40

GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Surrogates often either dont know what patients would want, or think they know but are wrong, or make choices that align with their own preferences rather than the patients. You can donate tax deductible donations to GeriPal so we can continue to produce t hese podcasts in 2025. Can we do better? Alex 00:28 It’s a hobby.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 110