GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

So delivering those month visits in clinic, often in tandem with their other oncology appointments. We really spent a lot of time helping the clinicians see that a patient’s illness, understanding and prognostic awareness was just as important as their pain scale, their pain score. What do we do with that?

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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. And then the process of having a guardian and then trying to have that guardian ultimately removed is a difficult one for a patient who’s seriously ill.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Well, as a kick off to this year’s first in-person State of the Science plenary, held in conjunction with the closing Saturday session of the AAHPM/HPNA Annual Assembly, 3 randomized clinical trials were presented. Alex: Recently you talked about the other trial, also with a nudge, and that was non-cancer, serious illness.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. So we’re going to be today talking about serious illness palliative care in the homelessness population. I’ll just throw out there people with serious illness experiencing homelessness.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Love to talk about also in the serious illness population. When you think about getting your groceries, going to doctor’s appointments, going to religious services, if that’s important to you. And then found out at the appointment; the wife was there, too: and no, it turns out he was still driving. Absolutely.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

So you don’t have to have the piece of paper that says, I appoint so-and-so only if you want to go outside the legal of the default characterizations, but you have to have a legal document. Many states have gone on to say you can appoint a proxy in an oral discussion with your physician. What words to use? Is the POLST useful?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The last time this happened to me I immediately went on the defensive despite years of training in serious illness communication skills. Dani and Kery present three steps for interacting with an angry patient: Look within: What is this anger bringing up in me? Dani: Yeah, so the way you presented was triggering to them.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

I love this series of articles because each presents a component of a practical, patient-centered approach to patient-surgeon communication and decision making, and language surgeons (and surgical trainees) can start using in their next patient visit. ” We make sure that we talk about illness understanding and prognosis.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

On today today’s podcast, we are joined by guest host and UCSF geriatrician Ashwin Kotwal as we welcome Dr. Tisamarie Sherry (Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Behavioral Health, Disability, and Aging Policy (BHDAP) , appointed by the Biden administration). Eric: That’s pretty impressive.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

And then the family tells me they can’t keep an appointment, they can’t manage their finances. Eric 18:39 Yeah, I do worry a little bit because I recently had a primary care appointment. Most of the public wants to have access to treatments and interventions that might help them forestall a devastating illness.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 8, 2024

And I think, oh, there was something she did besides getting cancer and dying, which requires such a focus, you know, cancer and terminal illness of any kind. So for 50 years, I’ve been saying to families, you know, when we go to the crematory, we do it by appointment, just like when we go to the cemetery to bury.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

These measures are taken before any evidence of disease or injury is present and are designed to prevent health problems from occurring in the first place. From childhood vaccinations to adult boosters and seasonal flu shots, immunizations prevent millions of illnesses annually.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Butstay with us heremight AI help to address some of the major issues present in surrogate decision making? Like, has there been any, anybody looking at of people who were seriously ill who got an intervention based on what a surrogate thought, what the patient would want, Is there any regret? You may be thinking the same.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

The article “ American Doctors Are Moving to Canada To Escape the Trump Administration ” (May 30) presents us Canadians with welcome news. This would present a valuable opportunity for doctors and their families to learn French. In every part of Canada, in every province, there are not enough doctors.

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