GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. So in preparation for this, I read a couple articles about social work leadership in palliative care.

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IT Families Family Clinic 102

GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

I’m not sure if you read that article and whether or not it’s changed your mind or whether or not you want to do any more research in advance care planning. And as you know, it’s a great article. Advance care planning doesn’t work. Your thoughts? LJ: Definitely read it.

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Community IT Patient-Centered Primary Care 96

GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

FDA is considering approval, shifting away from Schedule I restrictions, paving the way for use in clinical practice. Stacy: I honestly read Michael Pollan’s New Yorker article and was really inspired, and cold emailed the group at NYU, and they responded. Theora: Bryan shared that article with me. Eric: Yeah.

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Patient-Centered Community IT Medical 91

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

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

And then the family tells me they can’t keep an appointment, they can’t manage their finances. Well, even for somebody like you, who’s pretty familiar with the instruments, it might cause distress for the patient, maybe their family. So it matters a lot to the person, to their family, to the community.

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Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 97

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We got a couple of articles to discuss and a lot of different components of this. Eric: Which brings us to an article. Have you had a family history of substance use disorder? And so, we ultimately kept him on in palliative care clinic for a while. We’re going to be covering it in both cancer and in aging.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 137

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. They may have few family members, live alone. It’s tough.

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IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 100

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Harvey is probably best known for his work in developing dignity therapy, a psychological intervention designed specifically to address many of the psychological, existential, and spiritual challenges that patients and their families face as death approaches. And decided, interesting article, but it raised as many questions as it answered.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The ones who are publishing interesting articles are easy as we knew MAID is always going to be a controversial topic. Eric: I do not want my family to listen to my podcasts. So, I generally don’t listen to the podcast afterwards, nor force them on my family. So, we did try to get some breadth of guests on our show.

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IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 127

GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Additional links mentioned in the podcast: Recent JGIM article on POLST in California nursing homes, hospitalization, and nursing home care Karl’s GeriPal post on appropriate use of POLST Enjoy! You can even write in there, I don’t want my family members changing this and add that to the orders. OK, I’ll step off my soap box.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 127

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Whereas the home with the low rate of feeding tube use involved families in decision making. And to keep it short work for an article. Whereas the high-intensity nursing homes tended not to have a process or did not include families.

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Nurse Practitioner Hospital Families Family 60

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

We also explored several questions with them, including how to define trauma, its prevalence in older adults, the impact of past traumatic experiences, the potential triggers of trauma screening, and the application of trauma-informed principles in clinical practice. To learn more about CME for other GeriPal episodes, click here.

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IT Patient-Centered Individual Screening 67

GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

To delve into these questions, we spoke with Hope Wechkin, medical director of EvergreenHealth home hospice, who authored an article describing a process of Minimal Comfort Feeding (MCF) for patients who have expressed an interest in not wanting to live with advanced dementia. Joe, Josh, welcome back to Jerry Pal. Is that right, Hope?

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 89

GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

[laughter] Bob: That’s what happens when junior faculty get invited on the podcast [laughter] Eric: So we’re going to be talking about the article that just came out in JAMA on a priming intervention for goals of care conversations in hospitalized patients with serious illness. We’ll have a link to the article on our notes.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 84

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary A pragmatic trial evaluates the effectiveness of a treatment or intervention in real-world clinical practice. But before we dive into the study and the implications it has for the practice that we do, I believe someone has a song request. I’m hearing family and caregivers.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 80

GeriPal

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Heather: I’m requesting the song Don’t You Forget About Me, which is one of the things that I think matters most to patients and families living with Alzheimer’s disease. Heather: So people in their twenties but strong family history. Eric: Wonderful. Jason: A bit of an irony there is that Simple Minds is the band.

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IT Clinic Illness Hypertension 117

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Here are some articles that Kira and I have written about the topic, and that’s really how my interest in addressing sexual health concerns started. And so we have basic treatments for these issues that we train oncology clinicians to bring up in clinic practice. And I work right next to Don at the time.

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