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 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

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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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Summary Transcript CME Summary It is a battle royale on this weeks GeriPal podcast. But watch out!

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

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 39:13 No, there was actually in Colorado, I think there was that Atlantic article or New Yorker.

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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

JULY 28, 2022

This is my early father’s day gift from the family. 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. Jennifer: Oh nice.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Michele: Yeah, so in May of 2018, there was an article by Suleika Jaouad in the New York Times Magazine, and they spent about two weeks in our hospice with us learning about the work that’s done. And so the article focuses on the work of these three men who were mostly gang involved and did something really bad when they were young.

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BMJ

MAY 10, 2022

Introductory article to İkİIşik H, Sezerol MA, Taşçı Y, et alCOVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and related factors among primary healthcare workers in a district of Istanbul: a cross-sectional study from TurkeyFamily Medicine and Community Health 2022;10:e001430. Statistical significance level was accepted as p<0.05.

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GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

It is really difficult for the patients and the families. They do choose to rely more on their family and parents in ways that might feel like a step backwards and is yet, still developmentally appropriate and autonomous. You’re recognizing that, wow, this could happen to me, and I wonder sometimes about the challenges.

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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. And sometimes you can make a use disorder of diagnosis in hindsight.

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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

AUGUST 25, 2022

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. And yet, disenrollment from hospice, either due to patient/family revoking the benefit or stabilization of illness (extended prognosis) is remarkably high for people with dementia among some hospices.

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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 ). John: I am what I am, which is a family practice doctor. That dawned on me.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We got a couple of articles to discuss and a lot of different components of this. Our field really lacks specificity in the terms that we use, and I think we really don’t know how chronic cancer pain, let’s say, a few years out from that initial diagnosis differs from, let’s say, chronic low back pain.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

In today’s podcast we talk with surgeon Samir Shah and Health Services Researcher Joel Weissman about a pair of JAGS articles they published on the outcomes of high risk surgery and advance care planning among persons with dementia. Fifty percent have a diagnosis in their record of decedents have dementia. She has advance dementia.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

We might say, “Of course you’re sad, you just got a very serious diagnosis.” They’re still engaging fully with their family and with the activities and the hobbies that they’re still able to do. And having a cancer diagnosis and treatment is freaking stressful. Is this a new onset depression?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

There is a lot to digest with these draft clinical guidelines but the big change from the 2018 guideline is moving Alzheimers to a biological diagnosis (biomarker evidence only) not just for a research framework but now from a clinical one. Remember, family member. And that could extend beyond 18 months. We just don’t know that.

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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. Eric 12:05 Any pearls on the diagnosis of HFpEF. A pill organizer, having family.

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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

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The ones who are publishing interesting articles are easy as we knew MAID is always going to be a controversial topic. Eric: I do not want my family to listen to my podcasts. So, I generally don’t listen to the podcast afterwards, nor force them on my family. So, we did try to get some breadth of guests on our show.

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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 was asking about what was going to be special about the trip or if they were going to do things with their family. We could have talked for hours!

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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. I’ve heard talk about in the family circles that I was an inconvenient child born as a third son, when my dad desperately wanted a girl.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

What happened is that firstly, in terms of my clinical background, my background is psycho-oncology, so that’s working with patients with cancer and their families, including when they’re going through periods. Alex: Self-administer and psychiatric illness is not considered a qualifying diagnosis. Eric: Yeah. Eric: 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

MARCH 20, 2025

To delve into these questions, we spoke with Hope Wechkin, medical director of EvergreenHealth home hospice, who authored an article describing a process of Minimal Comfort Feeding (MCF) for patients who have expressed an interest in not wanting to live with advanced dementia. Joe, Josh, welcome back to Jerry Pal. Is that right, Hope?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Alex Smith: Before Eric gets to the articles, tremendous title from The Onion from ’97, “World Death Rate Holding Steady at a Hundred Percent. Eric: Okay, I’m going to jump to the articles. Let’s start off with your article, James. I think mortality is the final end path. ” I love The Onion.

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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

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, And our point, in this article, is that it’s an inherently unsafe system because humans suck at that. Let me ask you a question. And they suck at it for a lot of reasons. This is GPT-4.

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Tsai-Chin’s article, published in Lancet Healthy Longevity, found a tantalizing hint that countries with stronger safety nets had lower incidence of wealth shocks, and less of a deleterious impact of the wealth shock on cognitive function. And a couple of classic articles in this area. Alex 07:21 Yeah, I think that’s great.

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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

Administration on Aging connecting you to services for older adults and their families California’s Master Plan for Aging New York’s Master Plan for Aging Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. 60% of all medical costs have nothing to do with your health diagnosis. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

Alex 00:07 We are delighted to welcome Peter Selwyn, who is a family medicine and palliative medicine doctor and chairman of the Department of Family and Social Medicine and director of the Palliative Care Program at Montefiore E instein and author of Surviving the the Personal Journey of an AIDS Doctor. Is a new diagnosis of HIV.

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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.” We see our patients and our families throughout the illness trajectory into the hospital. It’s hard for your family to know.

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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. And so this is our way of supporting non English speaking families in advanced care planning. Jasmine, is it you?

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

We would drill down on the tenth differential diagnosis of medium vessel vasculitis, and then we would discharge them back out to the streets. Why was I spending all this time figuring out the detailed differential diagnosis of these obscure diseases when we weren’t actually attending to what people really needed?

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