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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

GeriPal

The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. Eric: Social worker, mental health, I think we can actually learn from our team because we’re starting to embed with ILD clinics from this intervention, too, and from these algorithms, and from kind of what you’re doing.

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Psychedelics – reasons for caution: Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, Theora Cimino

GeriPal

Today we largely focus on reasons for caution, including: We know almost nothing about psychedelics in older adults – only about 1% of patients in published trials were older adults, much less older adults with multiple chronic conditions, multiple medications, and frailty. Eric: Yeah. Eric: Yeah.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. There have been some fabulous national articles. To Susan’s point. Older people don’t live in the Offices for the Aging. They touch every single system.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

So if you think about dementia, it’s on the intersection of aging stigma and mental health stigma. And those people have a higher, not just dementia, but other multiple chronic conditions. But the other problem, which I think the driving force for even lack of demand, is there’s a huge stigma. Diane: Yeah.