GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

Today we are coming back for more (or less given the content), talking about the following articles with their lead authors: First up, we talk with Ariel Green about her article in JAMA Network on preferred phrases a clinician may use to explain why they should reduce or stop the medication. That’s huge! Welcome, Ariel.

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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

Summary Transcript CME Summary Its another deprescribing super special on today’s GeriPal Podcast, where we delve into the latest research on deprescribing medications prescribed to older adults. Today, we explore four fascinating studies highlighting innovative approaches to reducing medication use and improving patient outcomes.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

There’s an article about her in New York Times. Joe 03:55 You know, my thoughts are screening is important for a variety of reasons, and certainly Doctor Boris and Soo and Anna, Doctor chodos can provide a lot greater clinical insight than I. We didn’t have medications that were effective with a few side effects.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

The company has expanded its palliative care services through partnerships with hospitals and other managed care providers, according to AccentCare CEO Stephan Rodgers. Attendee 9: Early integration of palliative care in medical education. Eric: That’s why I love reading your articles, always so deep in science.

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The Motivated MD

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Last, but not least, I genuinely felt as if I was running out of ways to provide useful and entertaining financial content. If I feel like someone has said it better than I could, I will reference that article. Standard Disclaimer: None of the information on this website is meant as individualized financial or medical advice.

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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. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal Podcast, Stephanie Rogers, who’s a geriatrician and medical director of UCSF’s, age-friendly health systems. Great to be here.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. What are the risks and rewards of new classes of medications? When I’m on nursing home call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar value. How high is too high?

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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. COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. Transcript.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

We discuss the importance of viewing individuals with dementia from a lens of resilience, the importance of creative engagement ( as noted in Anne and Susan’s wonderful article on this subject) , the role of collaborative care, and what we can do to improve inclusivity for individuals with dementia in our community and health care systems.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

David is a physician who wrote the book “ Stoned: A Doctor’s Case for Medical Marijuana ” and gave a TED talk on “ A Doctor’s Case for Medical Marijuana ” that was watched over 3 million times. laughter] Alex 01:39 Material here for songs related to medical marijuana or marijuana in general. Eric 01:34 Yeah.

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Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

In my previous article I covered the types of illness and the causes. More severe symptoms, such as difficulty breathing, persistent vomiting, chest pain, or seizures, are red flags that necessitate immediate medical attention. Understanding the patient’s medical history is crucial for an accurate diagnosis.

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GeriPal

MAY 18, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Hot off the press is a brand spanking new updated 2023 AGS Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults. The Beers Criteria is one of the most frequently cited reference tools in geriatrics, detailing potentially inappropriate medications to prescribe to older people.

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BMJ

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

7 The same degree of focus has not been paid to misuse of other prescription medications which also have high abuse potential among youth, including medications such as prescription stimulants, tranquilizers, and sedatives. misuse of prescription medications). 2 Opioids contribute a large share of this overdose crisis.

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The Medical Futurist

MAY 26, 2025

We dive into these and more in this article. This has enticed clinicians and investors to create dedicated longevity clinics , but gyms might have an edge over classic medical care. The healthcare field has traditionally been among the slowest to adopt new technologies and trends. What is longevity, and how do gyms fit in?

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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. In medicine, it is commonly agreed that ‘to err is human’ Most healthcare professionals would agree that humans make mistakes. So yes, humans make mistakes.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

First, we’ve invited Jerry Gurwitz to talk about his recently published article in JAMA titled The Paradoxical Decline of Geriatric Medicine as a Profession (while it’s not the most upbeat title for the future of geriatrics, Jerry sees it as a call to action). I was going to start off by asking Jerry about why he wrote the JAMA article.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. Alex: We are delighted to welcome David Bekelman who’s a palliative care physician and researcher at the University of Colorado School of Medicine Anschutz Medical Campus. With their regular providers? AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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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

MARCH 9, 2023

Today we largely focus on reasons for caution, including: We know almost nothing about psychedelics in older adults – only about 1% of patients in published trials were older adults, much less older adults with multiple chronic conditions, multiple medications, and frailty. There is a marked lack of diversity in published trials.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Medical communication is tough, although fundamentally at its most basic unit of delivery, it includes really only three steps. Eric: Well, this is the part that I love about your article, too, is that it’s not just these big, big family meetings where miscommunication happens. Simple, right?

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary Falls are very common among older adults but often go unreported or untreated by healthcare providers. Providers may feel a sense of nihilism, that there just isn’t anything they can do to decrease the risk of falling. I think providers feel that way. She is a returning GeriPal guest.

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

I could go on and on, but listen to the podcast instead and for a deeper dive, take a look at the following articles and studies: Gabapentin in the Perioperative setting: Prolonged use of newly prescribed gabapentin after surgery. It’s not a controlled substance medication. J Am Geriatr Soc. Eric: Are these generic?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team social worker. So in preparation for this, I read a couple articles about social work leadership in palliative care. I can figure out how to provide care in this way. Summary Transcript Summary.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

And the main topic of today is a paper in Annals of Internal Medicine , Maria first author, that addressed the tradeoffs between initiating dialysis vs continued medical/supportive management. Eric 00:13 And, Alex, I am very excited today because there was an awesome article on Annals on conservative management versus dialysis.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

This office is tasked with providing aging policy research and recommendations within ASPE, including long term care and the National Alzheimer’s Project Act. Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Devika Nair, who is a nephrologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee Valley VA Healthcare System.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

These individuals may become unrepresented, meaning they lack the capacity to make a specific medical decision, do not have an advance directive for that decision, and do not have a surrogate to help. We’re going to be talking about the American Geriatric Society position statement on making medical treatment decisions.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Find out on this weeks podcast where we invite Joseph Greer, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson to talk about their recent JAMA article on Telehealth vs In-Person Early Palliative Care for Patients With Advanced Lung Cancer – A Multisite Randomized Clinical Trial. Alex, who is gonna be answering that question? Vicki 02:10 Thank you.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

What is our role as hospice and palliative care providers in advocating for high-quality hospice care? We also have Joe Shega, who is a hospice physician, and he is a Chief Medical Officer and Vice President at VITAS Healthcare. Ira: I like the article. She happened to focus on some specific for-profit hospice providers.

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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

JUNE 16, 2022

For example, we once thought that the lower urinary tract was sterile, but we now know it has its own microbiome, which may even provide protection against infections. And so I trained as an epidemiologist before medical school, and started out studying prostate cancer. And so really am fascinated by tough medical decisions.

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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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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary When treating heart failure, how do we distinguish between the expanding list of medications recommended for “Guideline Directed Medical Therapy” (GDMT) and what might be considered runaway polypharmacy? He’s a medical director of H ebrew S enior L ife outpatient clinic at Newbridge.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

You can hear Tyler and I having a great time singing together and sharing stories around his podcast My Medical Mixtape. And I was fortunate to record an episode of my medical mixtape with Tyler at the w hich meeting were we at, Tyler ? And so this is a shout out to our inpatient palliative team at Dell Medical School.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition. Eric: I felt that reading the article. We’ll have a link to that article on our show notes. Very excited to be here.

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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. He’s a linguistic and medical anthropologist at the University of Pennsylvania.

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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 ). I’m unsure what they do, how often they’re used, and who pays for their work. Jane: Right.

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