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Palliative Care for Mental Illness: A Podcast with Dani Chammas and Brent Kious

GeriPal

Still, we havent talked about integrating palliative care into psychiatry or in the care of those with severe mental illness. What does it look like to take a palliative approach to severe mental illness? Is “terminal” mental illness a thing? Eric 00:51 And Alex, who do we have with us today?

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

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Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. In their communities? With their regular providers?

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Psychedelics – reasons for caution: Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, Theora Cimino

GeriPal

Two of our guests today, Stacy Fischer and Brian Anderson, are involved in large multicenter trials of psychedelics for patients with advanced cancer (Fischer) or life-limiting illness (Anderson). And some people in studies and just in clinical use have found that to be helpful, including for patients with serious illness. Eric: Yeah.

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Palliative Care Pioneer: Susan Block

GeriPal

– Serious Illness Conversation Guide podcast. There was a Stanford article talking about you as a pioneer in this field. What I fell in love with and felt incredibly compelled by was the taking care of seriously ill patients and particularly helping them negotiate emotionally the experience of being very seriously ill.

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Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

We’ve got a, Sheryl published a great article, and Kenny and Ken published an editorial for that article. The songs about how saving lives is actually a pretty complicated business. And that’s why I think your article is so important is that we need standards. And which journal again? Eric: JAMA Network Open.

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What is going on with MAID in Canada? Bill Gardner, Leonie Herx, & Sonu Gaind

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To be eligible in Canada patients must have a “ grievous and irremediable ” condition, including disability ; they do not have to have a terminal illness with a prognosis of less than 6 months. A planned expansion of MAID to include people with mental illness was placed on hold until March 2024. So less than six months to live.

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The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks

GeriPal

The illness narratives suffering, healing, and the human condition. Alex: I wonder when we talk about it, because we’ll have links to both Eric Cassell’s argument, and we mentioned another article from Tate. Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Pain Manag Nurs. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004.

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