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. My voice is nothing special. 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. Alex 09:00 Not true.

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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

APRIL 4, 2024

Arguing for the state of Missouri against the Cruzan’s was Ken Starr, who would later be assigned the role of special prosecutor in the investigation of the Clintons (Whitewater, Lewensky, etc). You write about this, you’ve written this New England Journal article, you’ve written past articles.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So my family is from Maui and were impacted by the wildfires, so I really appreciate this. Alex: How is your family doing? My family’s also from Maui. And her dad’s family, the Makekaus family, which is based in Lahaina, and we actually visited their grave sites there, when we were there a few years ago.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. 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. Jennifer: Thanks.

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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

AUGUST 25, 2022

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. Eric: Alex, we have a super special today. We’ve got a hospice super special. Alex: We have a hospice super special day.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

There was a Stanford article talking about you as a pioneer in this field. There was no conversation with the patient or the family about this. And the families were part of it, which is not what it was like in the hospital. Susan: Thank you. Eric: I wonder if, as a pioneer in the field… And I was just reading about that.

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

I’m not sure if you read that article and whether or not it’s changed your mind or whether or not you want to do any more research in advance care planning. And as you know, it’s a great article. Advance care planning doesn’t work. Your thoughts? LJ: Definitely read it.

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GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

We’ve invited some very special guests to talk about the lower urinary tract – Christine Kistler and Scott Bauer. . Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Chrissy Kistler, who is a geriatrician researcher in the Department of Family Medicine and Vision of Geriatrics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

This week we’re going on to episode two, which is for me one of the most special episodes we’ve done in GeriPal for a very, very long time. Eric: And in the end, we have a very special part where we actually get a tour of their gardens outside of the hospice unit. Alex: This is Alex Smith. Allan: 35 years. Eric: 35 years.

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IT Families Family Board-Certified 97

GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Yes, it means to cloak, but theres more Whole-person-care Total pain Healing as a process distinct from the deterioration of the body Sympomatologists The patient and family as the unit of care Our guests referenced many articles on this podcast, linked above and below. by Kearney. I promise its short. I would put people on hold.

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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. We got some really special guests with us. Transcript. This is Eric Widera.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 102

GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

I think that there are times when we use humor to cope, and that’s a special and very tender space for of people to share in, but is not something that you want to expose to the light of the world. I was just thinking back to yesterday, we were in a family meeting. That’s scare tactics. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Despite these substantial needs, specialized palliative care beyond hospice is rare in nursing homes. How to think about primary and specialized palliative care in this setting. So we see a lot of problems with symptom management, a lot of family conflict. Many also suffer from distressing symptoms like pain. Kathleen 07:49 Yes.

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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

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. Because I think we have someone special, a guest host. A pill organizer, having family.

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Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

That’s why we use the terms assessment and intervention and we think of assessment as a skill of a very advanced skill that chaplains have of doing an in-depth evaluation of a patient or family member, and then the interventions should certainly follow naturally from that. LaVera: I trained at UCSF in family medicine.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

– @AlexSmithMD Here’s a link to an article about the Palliative Story Exchange. ** This podcast is not CME eligible. So has a special resonance for, I think, a lot of people who are Tragically H ip fans. 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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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. Now it’s what?

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Today we’re going to be talking about narrative writing specifically for healthcare professionals. Eric: Yeah, I can also imagine … So writing a traditional academic journal article is, one, you said it’s formulaic in a way. It feels special to me. So unlike academic journals and elsewhere.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 96

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

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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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. She’s a geriatric nurse practitioner specializing in palliative care, and assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. Whereas the home with the low rate of feeding tube use involved families in decision making.

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Nurse Practitioner Hospital Families Family 60

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

And also it’s a little bit of an insult to one’s identity to feel like if this special person in your life can be forgotten, then you can be forgotten. But our living memory home is a way to both maintain that connection, because that’s the fear is that you’re going to lose this connection to this very special person.

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IT Complication Relationship Specialization 100

GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

.” The assumption for most of these focus group members was that medicine is a business, that there are incentives that physicians and other clinicians are responding to that are not transparent, and that decisions are being made that are in the interests of the health system, not in the interest of the patient and family.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 101

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

primary palliative care interventions seem to fail, whereas specialized palliative care interventions have a relatively robust track record of success. And it’s very traumatic obviously for the family and all of that and the team really. Eric 19:30 Should we add that to special effects as our producer? We looked at reach.

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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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IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 88

GeriPal

MARCH 16, 2023

We have two authors, books, op-eds, prolific authors, and today’s podcast is a two-part special. So this week we’re going to be talking about writing for the lay public, and next week we’ll be publishing a podcast on writing for healthcare providers. Even if I write a scholarly article. Medicine changes.

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IT Healthcare Professional Healthcare Transportation 105

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.

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Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

I actually wonder though, since we’re on a GeriPal broadcast, I think that people are under emphasizing the special risk of older people. Eric: So as we start talking about things that we can do about it, maybe we can just start off with this thing of including it in the curriculum for healthcare professionals.

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

He is a palliative care physician at the Durham VA Medical Center in Duke and blogs on Substack at Notes from a Family Meeting. It’s all stemmed from a post that Josh wrote, I’ll caught from his Substack Notes from a Family Meeting. From you reading the 2022 article that was authored? Josh, welcome back to GeriPal.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Consulting 119

GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

[laughter] Bob: That’s what happens when junior faculty get invited on the podcast [laughter] Eric: So we’re going to be talking about the article that just came out in JAMA on a priming intervention for goals of care conversations in hospitalized patients with serious illness. We’ll have a link to the article on our notes.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 84

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

That happened to me when reading “Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World.” I had heard of course heard of imposter syndrome in the past but I didn’t make the connection to myself until I read this article and saw my thoughts printed on the page. moment – about yourself and the ways you interact with others.

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IT Medical Student Medical Families 104

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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Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 79

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. Who are our guests?

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Primary Care IT Clinic Provider 94

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

On today’s podcast Areej El-Jawahri, oncologist specializing in blood cancers at MGH, says that sexual health is one of the top if not the top issue among cancer survivors. Alex 00:06 We are delighted to welcome back Areej El-Jawahri, who’s an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who specializes in blood cancers.

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