GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Joseph Gaugler is the Director of the Center for Healthy Aging and Innovation at the University of Minnesota, director of the BOLD Public Health Center of Excellence on Dementia Caregiving, and Editor-in-Chief of the Gerontologist. There’s an article about her in New York Times. Who should get it if anyone? Joe 01:15 Yes.

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Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 120

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Does it improve outcomes that patients, caregivers, and clinicians care about? hint: 80% can be done in advance by patients or caregivers) Why is it that some oncologists are resistant to conducting a geriatric assessment, yet have no problem ordering tests that cost thousands of dollars? Welcome back, William. Delighted to be here.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 130

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

You have a patient with dementia severe enough that she cannot recognize relatives. Should she have an operation, and risk the pain, potential complications, and attendant delirium associated with the operation? Summary Transcript Summary. She falls and breaks her hip. AlexSmithMD. Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

And I just want to highlight, Jennifer has a great JPSM article that just came out. But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families. Would you also just mind mentioning kind of the JPSM article too?

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 111

GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Audio: [electronic voice] Alex Smith has been taken over by an artificial intelligence. Alex: And we have Matt DeCamp, who’s joining from the University of Colorado, where he is a primary care internist and bioethicist at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities. This is Eric Widera. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Charlotta.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 100

GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Caveat as well that RCTs should not be placed on pedestal as the only answer- often patients enrolled in RCTs do not represent real world patients – observational studies do. For a trial to have value, it should not exclude patients over age 80, or those with dementia, or patients residing in nursing homes.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 127

GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. Clinicians were randomized to 4 groups: Usual care Prognosis nudge – EHR prompt asking, do you think your patient will be alive in 6 months?

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Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 118