GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

This all came out from JAGS just published their first Clin-STAR corner, which is, and we’ll talk about what that is, but it’s a series of articles bringing in specialists to talk about updates in the last couple years within their field. Mody for the mentorship and for the opportunity to bring together these articles.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

The ability to appreciate, recognize, and engage with music is preserved even until late stages of dementia, and Theresa is examining how music can be useful from the time of diagnosis, not only for the person with dementia, but their caregivers. And I was looking for articles, and I wasn’t seeing as many as I expected.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary Cannabis is complicated. Eloise 10:29 Yeah, I think what we saw in California was, prior to legalization, there was curiosity, but also a lot of their healthcare professionals didn’t know enough about it, so they didn’t discuss it with them. Eric 39:20 Yeah, that was a great article.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Eric: Well, this is the part that I love about your article, too, is that it’s not just these big, big family meetings where miscommunication happens. Yeah, I think we took a pretty broad definition in the article, but really it’s any failure to communicate clearly and adequately. And I think of the Doug White article?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Instead, what if your surgeon told you that the operation she was discussing could help with only 4 things: live longer, feel better, prevent disability, or obtain a diagnosis? And, what if your surgeon openly discussed the expected ‘bad stuff’ of post-operative recovery, instead of rotely reciting a list of possible complications?

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Should she have an operation, and risk the pain, potential complications, and attendant delirium associated with the operation? And I came to the now I think naive conclusion that fixing and avoiding complications was the secret. Fifty percent have a diagnosis in their record of decedents have dementia. Eric: Yeah. Joel: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

First, we talk with Christine, a researcher and geriatrician from the University of North Carolina, who recently published a JAGS article titled Overdiagnosis of urinary tract infections by nursing home clinicians versus a clinical guideline. But really those urinary tract signs and symptoms should be driving your diagnosis.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

For example, there was one article that we reviewed for Jags where it asked great questions, they gave great prompts, and ChatGPT answered great questions about antipsychotics and gave a list of references to back up ChatGPT’s assertions. Now actually suggesting perhaps that you missed a diagnosis that you should have considered?

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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.

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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.” In general, the case is a patient who wound up with a new diagnosis of metastatic cancer during the course of the admission and at a certain point had full capacity, was able to make decisions and communicate.

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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 ). I’m unsure what they do, how often they’re used, and who pays for their work. Jane: Right.

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GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

Patients that remind us of loved ones, patients that are often younger, really hard stories, complicated issues. The whole idea of holding hope seems also so much more complicated for younger people because the hopes that they had, the normal hopes are not likely to be realized. What are the patients that we remember? Abby: Yeah.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Here are a couple of articles if you want to do a deeper dive: Dani and colleagues article on Psychiatry and Palliative Care: Growing the Interface Through Education. Dani and colleagues article on Palliative Care Psychiatry: Building Synergy Across the Spectrum. Eric 33:23 Article on Thaddeus Pope. And you can talk.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. It’s something we need to pay attention to, which is what we were talking about in the article. People with dementia make up about half of hospice admissions. Melissa: Sure. I threw out a lot.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

So we’re going to be talking about this complicated topic that a lot of people have differing opinions to and potentially very strong opinions, medical aid in dying. Alex: Self-administer and psychiatric illness is not considered a qualifying diagnosis. So figured out a little harmonica- Eric: That was wonderful. Eric: Yeah.

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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! Gretchen Schwarze like surgery, four things, live longer, feel better, be more functional, make a diagnosis. OK, I’ll step off my soap box.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

He is also author of the book, “ Walk with the Weary: Lessons in Humanity in Health Care ,” and was featured in this Atlantic article. It’s easier to concentrate on cure, diagnosis, cure. And I’ll share that my own relationship with my father, who was a doctor, was a complicated one.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Holly has accumulated mountains of evidence for the diagnosis of prolonged grief disorder as a specific condition primarily notable for a yearning over a year after the death. And I got from your article, while the peaks follow this pattern, people feel a lot of different things where it just reminds me of the times I’ve grieved.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

But the HIV we do see, and it feels tragic because the people who are dying of and affected by the more kind of traditional, if you call it that, kinds of complications, some of which can be fatal of HIV AIDS are the people who are not on treatment. A review article, which I still like to go to. Is a new diagnosis of HIV.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary We are dusting off our crystal balls today with three amazing guests who have all recently published an article on prognosis over the last couple months: Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley. Eric 00:13 And Alex, we have a super special today, three different articles. This is Eric W id era.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

So this is about two and a half, three years out from leukemia diagnosis. 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 I said, sure. And she’s like, is it okay for me to kiss my husband now? Sharon 15:21 Right.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Eric 01:07 So we have an amazing lineup of guests and we’re going to be talking about a pragmatic study on advanced care planning, which we’ll have links to in our show, notes for the actual article. 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.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

It’s not a new debate but has gathered steam at least in palliative care circles since Sean Morrisons published a JPM article titled “ Advance Directives/Care Planning: Clear, Simple, and Wrong.” And I think the advanced planning debate is really a question of, how do we help this very complicated situation? We see how hard it is.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

I love these topics, too, because even how do we define what is a diagnosis? I think, Winston, in your article, you even said for probably brief periods of time, they’re still conscious. Eric 30:09 And again, listeners, we’ll have links to Sean’s article on our website. It’s coming up very much right now.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

Yvonne Lindgren article mentioned on podcast. This is a key issue, and I want to cite… Here’s this nice article from Rights to Dignity: Drawing Lessons From Aid in Dying and Reproductive Rights by Yvonne Lindgren, who I don’t know. Lisa Harris piece mentioned on podcast. Alta Charo piece mentioned on podcast.

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