GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

** Claim your CME credit for EP297 “The Nature of Suffering” [link] Note : If you have not already registered for the annual CME subscription ( cost is $100 for a year’s worth of CME podcasts ), you can register here [link] For more info on the CME credit, go to [link] Disclosures: Moderators Drs Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

And I was looking for articles, and I wasn’t seeing as many as I expected. Jenny 04:45 Like, the last article was, like, 10 years ago. Eric 11:13 And, Tyler, that’s why I loved your article at J Gym on bringing music and benefits to patients at the bedside. Relationships are usually more complicated.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. Panelists David Bekelman, Lyndsay DeGroot, and Diah Martina have no relationships to disclose. But we put in a lot of extra time to get certified as a… I’m a certified nurse educator, my twin sister is a certified emergency department nurse.

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Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

GeriPal

MAY 18, 2023

Eric: And in the article that’s being published in JAGS, you have multiple tables. I feel like geriatricians have a, maybe it’s more of a hate/hate relationship with NSAIDs right now. Ruining the patient doctor relationship because you get into a fight about what anti-coagulants should be on.

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Medical IT Patients Clinic 97

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

I, for example, had one patient, I remember during my fellowship, I was in geriatrics clinic and had a very well read patient who came in and was reading a New York Times article, I think in the well section at one point. So those types of relationships, clergy, non family members, we talk about, I think cohabitating unmarried couples.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 109

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Eric 00:13 And, Alex, I am very excited today because there was an awesome article on Annals on conservative management versus dialysis. Eric 11:50 I also have to ask, because we will have a link to this article. One of my favorite articles. Would you mind just describing what you did in that article? This is Eric Widera.

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Management Patient-Centered Patients IT 116

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest hosts Lynn Flint and Anne Kelly have no relationships to disclose. The ones who are publishing interesting articles are easy as we knew MAID is always going to be a controversial topic. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Alex: I think those are great.

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IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 126

GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

But if you want to learn more, check out these links: The report by NASEM titled “ The National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality ” The website for the Moving Forward We will also link to the JAGS articles co-authored by seven committee members that focus on specific recommendations of the NASEM report when they get published (stay tuned).

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Panelists Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin have no relationships to disclose. Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Panelists Elissa Kozlov and Desiree Azizoddin have no relationships to disclose. Des: And I really love that you brought this up and this is one of your findings because I think that’s also missing in the education to palliative care providers. Long-winded answer, sorry.

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Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Laurie Dornbrand has no relationships to disclose. 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. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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Families Family Patient-Centered IT 112

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.

Illness 110

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

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.” Rather, most of us live and make decisions in relationship to one another. But once we realize that almost everybody makes decisions in the context of relationships. Should you stop at “no?”

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Families Family Patient-Centered IT 98

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Here are some more resources we’ve discussed in the podcast Dani’s NEJM article on coping: “ Should I Laugh at That? And so I let him educate me. Potentially harmful elements of that coping mechanism for your relationship with your four year old. I sort of called out the coping. Alex 17:20 Yeah, not as healthy.

Illness 125

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 125

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So I would say that a lot of the education we received were on cutting edge research and the latest drugs in clinical trials, the latest cellular therapies that are coming out. We brought up your JAGS article, which we’ll link to our show notes about some of the geriatric needs, falls. So this podcast is GeriPal.

Patient-Centered 129

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

There was a Stanford article talking about you as a pioneer in this field. Brian: I guess I’m thinking about hearing all this as a more recent product of medical education here. And learners were excited about it and interested in it because a lot of these people were fantastic educators. Susan: Thank you. Susan: Great.

Illness 109

Illness IT Families Family 109

GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

We discuss an article they wrote about PULET for the American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, including: What makes a PULET a PULET? Why did you even decide to write this article? How did you think about this when you’re together thinking about writing this article? Eric 11:35 And let me ask you this.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 77

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. They may have a long relationship with that cardiologist, so it requires some collaboration.

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Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Panelists Kate Courtright and Scott Halpern have no relationships to disclose. 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. and consulting for Papa Health. Ashwin: Yeah.

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Consulting Hospital Patient-Centered IT 121

GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

And it kind of made its way into medicine probably around, I’m going to say the 50s after there was a fairly interesting Time Life article that was published. And when that article went to print, it just went ballistic. So when they do meet it, how are you going to be in relationship to it? Gordon Alwasa. I always get.

Illness 107

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 107

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

I initially got into it because I was really looking at the psychophysiology of stress, and so how stress affects our health and how relationships were always a component of that. But then recognizing that our relationships impact our health even outside the context of stress. I want to let Carla also speak to some of this, too.

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IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 99

GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

He uses comics and other artwork to share his experiences in palliative care and educate others about topics like empathy and communication skills. Because just like in the bedside space, if you are using humor in a way that builds bonds and relationships with the patient can be really beautiful, and normalizing. Nathan: Yeah.

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IT Hospital Patients Illness 145

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. John: Yeah.

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Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Practice-PC is an intentionally interprofessional and cutting edge year-long group continuing education course in palliative care for working professionals from all disciplines, in the Bay Area. Lexy: The domains were meaning and purpose, relationships, transcendence and peace, and self-worth and identity, and we developed those.

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IT Patient-Centered Families Family 99

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

The one thing that we know is that education alone will not actually deliver behavior change. I mean, those articles didn’t get published in jama, so in journals, but we had qualitative. Eric 26:01 Curtis’s, he had a 2014 JAMA article on simulation. Does just communication education, has that been shown to work?

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

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.

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Patients 92

GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Unpacking characteristics of spirituality through the lens of persons of colour living with serious illness: The need for nurse-based education to increase understanding of the spiritual dimension in healthcare. I thought I was going to be a professor or educator, decided I didn’t like that. Tell me about your illness.

Patient-Centered 115

Patient-Centered Illness Healthcare IT 115

GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In an article in the NEJM (a published article this time, wonder of wonders!) Tell me how your illness has impacted your relationships with others, your healthcare team, your family, friends, your beliefs, your values, your preferences. I thought I was going to be a professor or educator, decided I didn’t like that.

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

But that was my take home from Danny’s article. Alex 10:49 And then when you say accountability without termination, that sounds like it speaks to a core principle of palliative care around non abandonment and building relationships. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. That was my take home.

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Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 73

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

We also take a dive into these 2 articles that Connie first authored: Palliative care in nursing homes: A qualitative study on referral criteria and implications for research and practice. And, you know, some, some relationship with hospice, some might not do many referrals at all to hospice. Almost all of them have hospice contracts.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And for this podcast in particular, both Bill and Louise wrote articles that we’re going to be discussing particular patient cases. So while you don’t have to, we’re gonna summarize these articles. If you have a chance to read those articles before you listen to this podcast, I highly recommend that you do.

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Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

Panelists Bill Gardner, Sonu Gaind, Leonie Herx have stated they have no relationships to disclose. The first one is I would want the general public and healthcare professionals to really understand actually what natural dying and death look like. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Eric: Thank you Bill.

Illness 144

Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

I think the other issue as geriatricians and we need to educate our patients about is now you’re not on one, but six months later on this drug, you go on one. So leaving the office with the script is going to require some education around subsequent medication taking as well as education around the symptoms of ARIA.

Patient-Centered 98

Patient-Centered IT Clinic Patients 98

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

A great Curbsiders podcast episode on Trauma-informed care with Megan Gerber CAPCs Trauma-informed care toolkit Mariahs article on Home-Based Care for LGBTQ or another diverse gender identity Older Adults ** This podcast is not CME eligible. Eric 27:08 I’m going to also call out Mariah’s article in jags. Kate 01:09 Yeah.

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Patient-Centered IT Individual Screening 67

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

We’re gonna be talking about three different articles that are gonna be presented Saturday, I believe, at the annual meeting. Three different articles. Which kind of brings us to our third article. I don’t think this is our first time that we’ve had a pediatric article. I’m Na Ouyang. Have to see.

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Consulting Community Patient-Centered Families 63

GeriPal

MAY 29, 2025

This is, you know, has to do with our personal relationship. And there’s like the emphasis on the relational component and what that means in terms of the relationship between the caregiver and the patient and the person. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Like, you’re really feeling yourself today.

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Families Family IT Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

– @AlexSmithMD Here’s a link to an article about the Palliative Story Exchange. ** This podcast is not CME eligible. I can remember two instances of storytelling in training or in education, I guess. One of the questions was, “Can you name a song by the Tragically Hip?” Transcript Eric 00:01 Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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