GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

We discuss the importance of viewing individuals with dementia from a lens of resilience, the importance of creative engagement ( as noted in Anne and Susan’s wonderful article on this subject) , the role of collaborative care, and what we can do to improve inclusivity for individuals with dementia in our community and health care systems.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

There’s an article about her in New York Times. And so certainly from a family’s perspective, a family caregiver perspective, the last thing we want to have when it comes to good dementia care is a diagnose and audio scenario, or in this case, some type of screening result, and then we’ll see you again in six months.

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

The biomarker discovery is tremendous, and I think truly will change the entire way ADRD is diagnosed and conceptualized in some ways. The post Prevention of Dementia: Kristine Yaffe appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. This is Eric Widera.

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Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

In my previous article I covered the types of illness and the causes. One of the primary tools used in diagnosing fever is the thermometer, an instrument that measures body temperature. Fever can present alongside other symptoms, such as chills and fatigue, which may help in diagnosing the underlying cause. FEVER FAQs (contd.)

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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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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. So this point led us to select these articles. One of your articles addresses that.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We got a couple of articles to discuss and a lot of different components of this. Eric: Which brings us to an article. And here, just to clarify, we’re using that term to mean, people diagnosed with cancer, not necessarily people who were treated with curative intent. Jessie: Yes. Jessie: Exactly. Eric: Oh, you were?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

So, the question becomes, what, if anything, should we do differently in the primary care setting to diagnose the disease? We address the following questions with Nate: Has anything changed for the primary care doctor when diagnosing Alzheimers? But these tests were never designed to diagnose. Does a good history matter anymore?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

I’d also like to give a shout out to a recent ACP article on HFpEF with an outstanding contribution from Ariela Orkaby, geriatrician extraordinaire (we also just did a podcast with her on frailty ). ** This podcast is not CME eligible. Is your impression that HFpEFde is under diagnosed in older adults? Eric 13:28 Thank you.

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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. 50 to 70% of people who are diagnosed with UTIs probably don’t have a UTI.

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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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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

JANUARY 30, 2025

Find out on this weeks podcast where we invite Joseph Greer, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson to talk about their recent JAMA article on Telehealth vs In-Person Early Palliative Care for Patients With Advanced Lung Cancer – A Multisite Randomized Clinical Trial. It’s the same measure we used in the New England journal article.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

And if you want to learn more about buprenorphine from these amazing palliative care clinicians and others, check out of some of these articles: Learn more about caring for those with substance use disorder: . Article on buprenorphine in the elderly. I always thought this article came out 2011. Transcript. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

You’re a senior author on this article in JPSM, where you interviewed some geriatricians and other people caring for older adults, nurse practitioners, social workers, et cetera. I just love her conclusion because what she realizes is when you’re first diagnosed… This is research. We could have talked for hours!

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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. Our names were slightly off. And they were complete hallucinations. Alex: Mm-hmm. Charlotta: Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

She was resuscitated by EMS, but did not regain higher brain function, and was eventually diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state. This topic came up with Bernie published an article in New England Journal called Deciding for Patients Who Have Lost Decision-Making Capacity Finding Common Ground in Medical Ethics.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

So in preparation for this, I read a couple articles about social work leadership in palliative care. And the title of his article is, does culture of modern day palliative care social work leave room for leadership, where he interviewed six leaders in palliative care, five or six for social workers. Eric: All right, Barbara.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

And I had no idea what that would look like or what I would do until I happened upon an article by actually a fellow Winnipegger, a man named Jim Brown who was an expert in mood disorders. And decided, interesting article, but it raised as many questions as it answered. ” And we began writing and we got our first grant.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In many, many, many of these studies, they excluded people with severe mental health distress, so certain mental health diagnoses were exclusion criteria from a palliative care study. Alex: And you had this fascinating article. And here’s the one that really was mind-blowing to me. It doesn’t have to be this or that.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

We’re going to be talking about default palliative care, a new article that just came out in JAMA this week, co-paired with another article that was published that we did a podcast on last week. laughter] Eric: Maybe we should talk after this podcast about what’s happening here, but we have a great topic today.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

I had looked at a research article that had recently evaluated the prevalence of private equity transactions in the hospice market and noted that there was a pretty substantial uptick in the past decade, and really over the course of say around 2015 to 2019. People across all diagnoses want hospice care. Melissa: Sure. Melissa: Yeah.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

And we’ve been diagnosing it at Penn. What does geriatrics have to do to be ready to be an integral part of this process of diagnosing, prescribing, and monitoring for side effects from these drugs? In days of old, I would’ve called them Alzheimer’s. I guess the question to you, I’m going to start with Nate.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

Our guests Tim Farrell, Ramona Rhodes, and Nancy Lunderbjerg wrote an article in JAGS on this issue, and Sharon Brangman wrote a separate JAGS article on the need to achieve diversity in study populations. The article was titled, “ Change is coming ” – which also gives you a hint as to today’s song request. Eric: Yes.

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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.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

And so I began to think about the training that I had and that there was no mental health condition that was diagnosed. In fact from the time he was diagnosed, he passed away within two and a half weeks. Something about it wasn’t necessarily right in terms of her desire to be always with us.

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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.” The post Involving the inner circle: Emily Largent, Anne Rohlfing, Lynn Flint & Anne Kelly appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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Families Family Patient-Centered IT 98

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Someone who’s healthy in their 60s and just got diagnosed with diabetes, yeah, they might benefit, if they have a very long life expectancy, to prevent that decline in kidney function. Eric: Okay, I’m going to jump to the articles. Let’s start off with your article, James. It’s a more sensitive subject.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

I’m concerned about how can I get my dad diagnosed or get this proper care.” Fayron: One of the key statistics I say is, “By 2030, nearly 40% of individuals that would be diagnosed with dementia would be Black or Latino.” This is what they’re projecting.” ” Alex: Projecting in terms of what?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

But if you actually look at the number of palliative care physicians in the province of Ontario and look at the number of people who are newly diagnosed with cancer, the possibility that there’s adequate access to good palliative care is just very remote. Eric: Thank you Bill. The post What is going on with MAID in Canada?

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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. Why am I feeling frustrated with this patient? That was my take home. So I love that you brought it up.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

Because I remember there was an article maybe six months ago in JAGS, maybe it was longer than that, everybody was talking about ChatGPT-3.5, The results were that the chat bots got the diagnoses right and had an escalation strategy that was better than the doctors, as judged by blinded specialists reading the transcripts.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So you, Jennifer, probably have, like, the most cited, probably should be the most cited randomized controlled trial of palliative care and lung cancer patients that everybody, every palliative care article I’ve seen, whether or not it works, always includes, it was outpatient palliative care in lung cancer patients. All of this is.

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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

JULY 6, 2023

I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. There have been some fabulous national articles. To Susan’s point. Older people don’t live in the Offices for the Aging. They touch every single system.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

One in 10 people with newly diagnosed HIV is an older adult. And over that first 15 years, which was a very difficult time when there was no treatment at all available, everybody died and usually within months or a year or two of when they were diagnosed. A review article, which I still like to go to. And I also remember.

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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. Yeah, we did not do that because dementia is so often under diagnosed and there’s a lack of awareness.

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