GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. It was around helping communication, and really focused on our nursing manual, and particularly around these guidelines for assessing and managing symptoms. So, the training was largely around… It was different for the nurse. Eric: Oh, wow.

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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. 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? Jennifer: Thanks.

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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. Management of chronic pain in the elderly: focus on transdermal buprenorphine.

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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. 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

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Pain Manag Nurs. Alex: I wonder when we talk about it, because we’ll have links to both Eric Cassell’s argument, and we mentioned another article from Tate. 2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004. 2023.11.004.

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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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So I make the point, they often say, “Oh, you have this special population,” like pediatrics, where it’s 10% or something. We brought up your JAGS article, which we’ll link to our show notes about some of the geriatric needs, falls. Do you worry about that? We actually have the majority.

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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. This is Eric Widera. He’s in Boston.

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GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

So in our trial, because of security reasons, we are required by Health Canada to store the substance in a special secure area in my office. 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. James 01:34 Yeah, right on.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Eric: Alex, we have a super special today. We’ve got a hospice super special. Alex: We have a hospice super special day. Eric: We have a smorgasbord, if you will, of papers that got published recently around hospice, and that’s why we’re calling it a hospice super special. -@AlexSmithMD. Transcript.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

In particular, she reminds us that when we think about the most challenging of our patient encounters, they almost always involve a complex psychosocial dynamic, and this has received far less attention than communication and symptom management issues. . There was a Stanford article talking about you as a pioneer in this field.

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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. And so I tried to get her actually to pain management, and I couldn’t. Pain management wouldn’t come to the facility, and she was bedbound.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

He spent a long time as hospice medical director and he founded a national model of care that many of our listeners will be familiar with, AIM, which stands for the Advanced Illness Management program, which has influenced CMS policy. They’re like, “Everyone wants to make every moment of our day special.”

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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. Anne: Well, speaking of your kids, a very special, sometimes listener, chimed in named Ren Smith. Alex: And, it means pain management. So, we did try to get some breadth of guests on our show. Alex: Okay.

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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. A good prescriber, a good symptom control manager. by Kearney.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

primary palliative care interventions seem to fail, whereas specialized palliative care interventions have a relatively robust track record of success. It was like this patient is on hospice and call the case manager to figure out how the patient ended up here. Eric 19:30 Should we add that to special effects as our producer?

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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

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. Any thoughts about that?

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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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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

We welcome all professions, including but not limited to physicians, chaplains, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, case managers, administrators, and pharmacists. I spent my early time at Brady, and by the way, LaVera, your early article was pivotal for me when I came upon it, when I was working in that setting.

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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. Thaddeus, you wrote an article in JAGS not too long ago.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

She’s a geriatric nurse practitioner specializing in palliative care, and assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. And to keep it short work for an article. It improves symptom management. Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast, Joan. Joan: Thanks. I’m delighted to be here. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

But before I became a nurse I had a long career at Procter & Gamble in brand management and I worked on the Covergirl and Max Factor business. There was an article that came out about cancer center advertising. I’m going to turn to Marian first. Marian: I have been a palliative care nurse practitioner for a number of years.

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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

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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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

A review article, which I still like to go to. But I think primary care clinicians, geriatricians, should be able to do at least the basic management and HIV care. In San Francisco, HIV care was more specialized in that. I couldnt help it, forgive me dear listeners, I had to do a longer than usual cut at the start!

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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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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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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Look also for a forthcoming article by Mike and Redwing in Journal of Pain and Symptom Management on poetry as a healing modality, to be published mid May (will add link when out). That’s coming out in JP… Redwing: JPSM, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, yeah. Institute for Poetic Medicine.

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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 that included scheduling a visit with a, with a facilitator who had been specially trained. Jasmine, is it you?

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

Alex: But the longer title’s Ethno-Geriatrics and Special Populations. So someone who’s got, let’s say, a psychotic disorder and a substance use disorder, those services are going to be pretty intense case management to help them just manage their life. Margot: Yes. So thank you, Margot. Have a great night.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. I didn’t know how to manage it. He created fee for service, special fee for depression. And I was terrified.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

Yvonne Lindgren article mentioned on podcast. He has an interest in hospice and of life care, pain management and medical ethics. So, they were finding that their miscarriage management was constrained and sometimes less safe, honestly, because of the restrictions. Lisa Harris piece mentioned on podcast. SPONSOR: .

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back two very special guests who were with us early in the COVID pandemic, and really shown a light on what was happening for the rest of us who could see this giant wave coming, and were just thirsty for information and experiences from those people who were experiencing it early. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

You wrote the SF Chronicle article on an op-ed. Carly: Absolutely, and I will say we had a really hard time narrowing it down to these three because amongst those of us who wrote that article, we can think of hundreds of people. They couldn’t get a case manager to refer them in palliative care.

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