GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

In case you miss the introductions at the start of the podcast, Bernie and Laurie are married, and offer wonderful reminiscence of their clinical practice over the last several decades. You write about this, you’ve written this New England Journal article, you’ve written past articles. What words to use?

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Families Family Patient-Centered IT 113

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. We discuss an article they wrote about PULET for the American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, including: What makes a PULET a PULET? Ivermectin to treat cancer. Think vitamins.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 79

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! Respectful disagreement is in short supply these days. OK, I’ll step off my soap box. AlexSmithMD Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 127

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. Alex: LJ, are you going to add to that?

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Community IT Patient-Centered Primary Care 96

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Fox gives patients hope there may be a place that illness doesn’t touch Depression is a Liar Why is Being a Patient Such a Difficult Pill to Swallow Better Patient Care Calls for a ‘Platinum Rule’ to Replace the Golden One. And decided, interesting article, but it raised as many questions as it answered.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

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

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Most of the public wants to have access to treatments and interventions that might help them forestall a devastating illness. They actually published a really good article in December on what’s the role, how should we diagnose Alzheimer’s disease in primary care? But you wrote an article about what primary care Needs.

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Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 97

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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Patient-Centered IT Individual Screening 67

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. Were you administering scales to pick up on loneliness and isolation? It’s tough.

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IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 100

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. So a ton to talk about. What is it, Hope? Is that right, Hope?

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 89

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Eric 01:13 So we got a lot to cover today on sexuality, sexual health and serious illness. So we got a lot to cover on sexuality, sexual health, and serious illness. 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.

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 131

GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

Today we discuss a new paper in JAMA that tests a stripped down version of the clinician only facing intervention in a pragmatic randomized trial for older adults with serious illness and those 80+. Eric and I also reflect on the podcast Randy generously did with us on his experience living with and studying serious illness.

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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. Outcomes are typically assessed from available records.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 80

GeriPal

DECEMBER 1, 2023

And the two were sort of intermeshed even to the point in the eighties, the thought was all dementia is Alzheimer’s or it’s some medical illness or combination of other stuff that’s not about it. That’s in my view as analogous as to any other illness. You need the plaques to have that illness.

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