GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

And so a lot of it’s the education for patients and their care partners, “This is why we’re doing the things we’re doing. And my hypothesis is that’s because it’s no longer the individual managing their own diabetes, it’s the nursing home staff managing their diabetes.

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Diabetes Management Patient-Centered Family 73

The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Identify realistic solutions to drug policy reform that promote health equity among marginalized communities living in the United States. Screening for substance use and offering connections to treatment and community-based services are important strategies that clinicians can implement in their own practice today.

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Community Patient-Centered Mental Health Board-Certified 52

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

First, we’ve invited Jerry Gurwitz to talk about his recently published article in JAMA titled The Paradoxical Decline of Geriatric Medicine as a Profession (while it’s not the most upbeat title for the future of geriatrics, Jerry sees it as a call to action). I was going to start off by asking Jerry about why he wrote the JAMA article.

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Board-Certified IT Community Medical Student 91

GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

We discuss our favorite articles, parody songs, and memories from AGS meetings past, with a little preview of a song for this years meeting. We covered: The first parody song I wrote, for AGS 2018 in Orlando , about this article by Nancy Schoenborn on how to discuss stopping cancer screening. And then I got to choose the first article.

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IT Hospital Screening Patients 64

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. In their communities? I’d be operating at the top of what I’m capable of doing, to provide really tailored and individualized care for my patients and their care partners, where they are. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Feyron has centered her work in Black/African American faith communities and churches – a program she titled Alter. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Fayron Epps, who is associate professor and director of Community and Research Engagement at the School of Nursing at Emory. Why this focus? Karen: Thank you. Alex: Great.

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Community Family Families IT 128

GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

Psychedelics have been used by communities around the globe for hundreds of years (or more). Stacy: I honestly read Michael Pollan’s New Yorker article and was really inspired, and cold emailed the group at NYU, and they responded. There was an article in New York Times last week about rampant prescribing of psychedelics.

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Patient-Centered Community IT Medical 91

GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

How HHS and ASPE solicit input from clinicians, community leaders, and older adults and how much it impacts policy decisions (spoiler alert: this involvement is CRUCIAL). There’s a team now with them behind them making sure that they stay safe and held in our communities. How to make your voice heard and get involved.

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Patient-Centered Complication IT Patients 52

GeriPal

MAY 26, 2022

This week, we discuss an article by bioethicists Govind Persad and Emily Largent arguing that the NIH guidance for allocation of Paxlovid during conditions of scarcity. And then tier two is unvaccinated individuals not included in tier one who are at risk for severe disease. What’s wrong with that? Why not prioritize them?

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Vaccination Individual IT Healthcare 87

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

IT 126

IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 126

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 8, 2025

And it kind of made its way into medicine probably around, I’m going to say the 50s after there was a fairly interesting Time Life article that was published. And when that article went to print, it just went ballistic. Do you educate them not to drive? Gordon Alwasa. Am I saying that right? I always get. And they drive.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 107

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 didn’t feel connected to the people in their broader community.

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IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 99

GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Having read at least some of your research articles there’s a lot of focus around this intersection between what happens to people after the hospital stay post-acute, especially in the cancer patients. Eric: I felt that reading the article. We’ll have a link to that article on our show notes. Ann: Likely.

Patient-Centered 132

Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 132

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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IT Families Family Physicals 137

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

For a deeper diver into these issues, check out some of the following links: Ira’s Stat new article “Hospice care needs saving” GeriPal’s episode on the growing role of private equity in hospice care Acquisitions of Hospice Agencies by Private Equity Firms and Publicly Traded Corporations. Ira: I like the article. Thank you, Anne.

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IT Provider Patients Families 113

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

These individuals may become unrepresented, meaning they lack the capacity to make a specific medical decision, do not have an advance directive for that decision, and do not have a surrogate to help. How should we care for unrepresented individuals in inpatient and outpatient settings? Why not use the older term unbefriended?

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BMJ

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

1 The purpose of this article is not to denigrate youth (or their parents) for whom these medications are truly needed for medical reasons. Besides the risks to an individual, there are also population-level harms from normalizing certain harmful behaviors (e.g., Fam Med Community Health. References Agaku I, Odani S, Nelson J.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

Second, as we discussed in last week’s podcast , older adults, particularly those in nursing homes, were far more likely to die than younger individuals. The article was titled, “ Change is coming ” – which also gives you a hint as to today’s song request. It can influence education systems.

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Patients 91

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

We’ve had difficulty in recruiting and engaging in those communities, and that’s on our end. It’s not on the community’s end. So it matters a lot to the person, to their family, to the community. Of these interventions in those individuals. What is the role of the amyloid antibody treatments?

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Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 95

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

We covered some of our questions on the podcast, others you can ponder on your own or in your journal clubs, including: Maries tele/video palliative care intervention was tailored/refined with the help of a community advisory board. Three different articles. Eric 04:27 Yeah, I gotta ask about the community advisor. Have to see.

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Consulting Community Patient-Centered Family 63

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

And I just want to highlight, Jennifer has a great JPSM article that just came out. Would you also just mind mentioning kind of the JPSM article too? What drove you to write that article on this important trip to Seattle? And my article is about when I was a mid to junior faculty member trying to build this career.

Illness 110

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

So Tammie developed something called EPIC for Emergency medicine, which is a curriculum that was one of the first ways that I think palliative care got spread in our community. We adapted a small group of us, Vital Talk for emergency medicine, which is communication skills training using simulation. And so we use that. No difference.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Check out the Pub Crawl GeriPal post for more info, and follow #HPMParty on Twitter to keep us as we crawl! ** In the last several years, I’ve seen more and more articles about end-of-life doulas ( like this NY Times article from 2021 ). That was really the theme song of how the community came together. How do you see the light?

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Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

A great Curbsiders podcast episode on Trauma-informed care with Megan Gerber CAPCs Trauma-informed care toolkit Mariahs article on Home-Based Care for LGBTQ or another diverse gender identity Older Adults ** This podcast is not CME eligible. And you can’t really predict how each individual might react to the same experience.

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IT Patient-Centered Individual Screening 66

GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

But the other was she read an article about our hospice in the May of 2018 New York Times magazine. And that article really, it’s by Suleika Jaouad, and it focused on some of the peer workers that we have. And she read that article and was very moved by the work that these men are doing, and so she wrote the song about that.

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IT Family Families Board-Certified 97

GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Many were community hospitals. We did another nudging trial where the deep default was for default palliative care consultations for high risk patients, and it significantly increased individuals who were receiving palliative care. We tested two different nudges individually and then we combined them. I highly encourage you.

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Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 116

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

We are also joined by LaVera Crawly, a physician turned chaplain, now VP of Spiritual Care at Common Spirit Health (and author of another of my favorite and most cited papers on palliative care in the African American Community ). In addition to that long list, I was also a chaplain educator. Where are my colleagues?”

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IT Patient-Centered Families Family 99

GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Unpacking characteristics of spirituality through the lens of persons of colour living with serious illness: The need for nurse-based education to increase understanding of the spiritual dimension in healthcare. I thought I was going to be a professor or educator, decided I didn’t like that. We need to remedy that issue, Eric.

Patient-Centered 115

Patient-Centered Illness Healthcare IT 115

GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In an article in the NEJM (a published article this time, wonder of wonders!) I thought I was going to be a professor or educator, decided I didn’t like that. You would love this because in that story that was in that patient CHR was a particular song that had meant a lot to this individual.

IT 105

IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Start by reading this article by Sean Morrison, Diane Meier, and Bob Arnold in JAMA , and this response from Rebecca Sudore, Susan Hickman, and Anne Walling. Although, certainly when you start facing complications of serious illness, it is increasingly important to engage as individuals and conversations about goals, values, and preferences.

Illness 72

Illness IT Healthcare Patient-Centered 72

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Today we talk with Anne Rohlfing, Lynn Flint, and Anne Kelly, authors of a JGIM article on the reasons we shouldn’t stop at “no.” It might be a hired caregiver, it might be a social worker in the community or other person who may not identify with that word friend or family. Should you stop at “no?” This is Eric Widera. Not anymore.”

Family 97

Family Families Patient-Centered IT 97

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Illness 144

Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

So, how can we improve palliative care for individuals in nursing homes? We also take a dive into these 2 articles that Connie first authored: Palliative care in nursing homes: A qualitative study on referral criteria and implications for research and practice. But some of these things are addressable potentially through education.

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Referral Nurse Practitioner Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

But that was my take home from Danny’s article. And I just want to also highlight, we’ll have a show note because there is a great JPSM article that he wrote that describes this clinic that he created with his colleagues. For those individuals, how do you think about that? That was my take home. Sach 07:22 Yeah.

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Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 72

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

And to keep it short work for an article. Caroline: Again, just further educating on the front lines and families in particular, I think is really important as well as these policy implications. I was like, how do you disseminate this knowledge out to these community nursing homes in rural Georgia so that people know about this?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

was supported by the fossil fuel industry , because it shifted responsibility for change from industry to individuals. Leslie Wharton is a leader in the 26,000 member grassroots organization Elders Climate Action , which organizes older adults to create communities engaged in making a difference at local, state, and national levels.

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