GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Sonali Advani and Lona Mody talk about their recent JAGS article highlighting three recent articles that every clinician caring for older adults should be aware of in the treatment of infectious diseases (hint: I’ve never finished a course of antibiotics, and maybe your patients don’t need that full course either).

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Next, we turn to Emily McDonald, the director of the Canadian Medication Appropriateness and Deprescribing Network , to discuss her study on the impact of direct-to-consumer educational brochures on gabapentin deprescribing. Additionally, clinicians participated in monthly educational sessions. in the usual care group. Why is that?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

If you want to do a deeper dive in ACE units, check out some of the following articles: The original NEJM paper on ACE units from 1996. Not every hospital or every health system is the same physically or financial incentives or which clinical programs exist and patient demographics. Kellie: Yes.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Judy Long, MDiv, BCC , palliative care chaplain and educator at UCSF and caregiver. We’re going to be talking about transforming dementia care, and the very first thing that I’d like to talk about is that about a decade ago, Susan and Anne wrote a really amazing article and Ab, I think you are the editor for it.

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

If you want to take a deeper dive into this subject and read some of the articles we discussed in the podcast, check out the following: Hearing Loss: Effect on Hospice and Palliative Care Through the Eyes of Practitioners. And one of the parts of that was actually doing physicals for the students and putting them in job placements.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

And so a lot of it’s the education for patients and their care partners, “This is why we’re doing the things we’re doing. Are clinicians adequately trained and educated about signs and symptoms of that right balance of knowing when to change the whole medication regimen? Absolutely. Nadine: Yeah.

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The Motivated MD

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

For the better half of 2024, I have been periodically writing posts that are individual articles that double as potential chapters to a future book. From the moment you start post-graduate education (internship and residency), this is seen as a physician’s first ‘real job.’ Set it and forget it!

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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 26, 2023

Physical therapy had walked with him that day and noted improvement compared to previous walks, suggesting that he should be discharged to a skilled nursing facility for rehabilitation on discharge. At the end of the day, I lamented that physical, occupational, and speech therapists aren’t more tightly integrated with palliative care teams.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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PEMBlog

MAY 24, 2023

This entails utilizing the least invasive non-pharmacologic means of assisting them, before moving to physical or chemical restraints. These articles will take another look at the content included in this episode. Deaths due to physical restraint. Physical and chemical restraints. Dtsch Arztebl Int. 2012 Jan;109(3):27-32.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. And I love the podcast that we did because it really highlights… We pride ourselves in palliative care, and focusing on physical, psychological, social, and spiritual suffering. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Eric: Yeah. We joke about this a lot.

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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. A music therapist would use music deliberately to achieve a rehabilitation goal, just like a physical therapist or an occupational therapist. Eric 04:42 There was even less on GeriPal.

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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. Eric: That’s exciting.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

I love this series of articles because each presents a component of a practical, patient-centered approach to patient-surgeon communication and decision making, and language surgeons (and surgical trainees) can start using in their next patient visit. I adored this article. Alexis, welcome to GeriPal. Alexis: Thanks for having me.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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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. Gordon Alwasa. Am I saying that right? I always get. Sorry, Demoralization and chronic pain.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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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

MAY 26, 2022

This week, we discuss an article by bioethicists Govind Persad and Emily Largent arguing that the NIH guidance for allocation of Paxlovid during conditions of scarcity. Eric: But if we’re using organ donation example, there are really no physical benefits for the organ donor.

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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. And then the duo, physical and cognitive function, those are the seven that… Alex: Oh, that’s a good way of remembering it. I like it, John.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Kate and Ashwin talked about their research on the prevalence of lifetime trauma and its association with physical and psychosocial health among adults at the end of life. We’re going to be linking to two important JAGS articles that our guests wrote just recently in JAGS. Ashwin 00:49 Excited to be back. Kate 01:09 Yeah.

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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. And then also potentially from an educational standpoint. So this one really hit home for me as a great educational tool. Eric: Do you use this also in more formal education?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Nate 26:42 And so if we’re going to be using that term in a new way, there’s a lot that has to go into the education and reframing of that. They actually published a really good article in December on what’s the role, how should we diagnose Alzheimer’s disease in primary care? So that’s a powerful term.

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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. We need to remedy that issue, Eric.

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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? And your article dives into that.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 77

GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In an article in the NEJM (a published article this time, wonder of wonders!) I thought I was going to be a professor or educator, decided I didn’t like that. Here’s one, a senior resident presented a patient morning report and the physical exam said the patient had a scar in the groin.

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

We’ve got a, Sheryl published a great article, and Kenny and Ken published an editorial for that article. And that’s why I think your article is so important is that we need standards. So, how do we establish standards so that you even get the basic care you need for your cognitive or physical functional issues?

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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.

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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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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. Another study looking at the benefits of physical rehabilitation in patients with HFpEF.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Like it’s… Julianne: But I mean the one thing that Carla and I did in this article was try to provide a framework of very practical steps that providers can use. The idea of listening with your ear, so E being educate, A, assess, and R, respond. Eric: 2010 was so long ago, we barely had Amazon Prime then.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

We found their physical environment was drastically different; where those with low feeding tube rates had really a rather beautiful physical environment. And to keep it short work for an article. Ruth: Also in a few short words, we found similar to our initial study that there were differences in physical environment.

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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. In addition to that long list, I was also a chaplain educator. It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions. Where are my colleagues?”

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GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

But the other was she read an article about our hospice in the May of 2018 New York Times magazine. And that article really, it’s by Suleika Jaouad, and it focused on some of the peer workers that we have. And she read that article and was very moved by the work that these men are doing, and so she wrote the song about that.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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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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