GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

Physical activity is a big one. But there are some things that we really think we can modify: the vascular risk factors, sleep, physical activity, maybe cognitive activity, and what kind of bang for the buck could we get? If you’re physically active, you’re probably going to sleep better and your vascular stuff is better.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

Nicole: I was just going to add that I think a helpful analogy for me has been to think about our clinical assessment, sort of like if a physical therapist just stood at the door with their ear up to the door to listen if a patient fell, and then made a recommendation plan for exercise. Raele: Yeah, it’s beautiful, colorful images.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Eric 16:36 Okay, Connie, I got one last question about your article. So acupuncture, Tai Chi, Yoga, mindfulness and physical therapy, chiropractor. Michelle 35:24 So we did a little different study design than the other articles we’ve heard about today. We’ll go in order of how we did your articles.

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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. This is Eric Widera.

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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

JULY 19, 2024

There’s an article about her in New York Times. The post Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. But it seems very apropos to the topic. Soo 01:37 It’s a little obvious. Here we go.

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Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

In my previous article I covered the types of illness and the causes. Importance of Physical Examinations Physical examinations also play a significant role in diagnosing health conditions. Include a balanced diet, regular physical activity, adequate rest, and stress management in daily routines. FEVER FAQs (contd.)

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

It has to do with movement and food in a lot of ways- Tamryn: Physical activity, nutrition, dietary changes. There’s this great article and I’ll send it to you all, it’s called End-of-Life Care Requires Caution With Use of Continuous Glucose Monitoring, JPM, from 2020. Absolutely. Eric: Practical advice.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 15, 2025

The following is a summary of “Stigmatisation of survivors of political persecution in the GDR: attitudes of healthcare professionals,” published in the June 2025 issue of Frontiers in Psychiatry by Schott et al. Source: frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1556411/full

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The Medical Futurist

MAY 26, 2025

We dive into these and more in this article. Guided by medical diagnostics to ensure measurable outcomes, their programme focuses on a “brain-body fitness” concept designed to enhance cognitive and physical performance. This might indicate a very plausible scenario where gyms become longevity centres.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

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. I mean, to me, the Buddhist concept that there are multiple forms of suffering, like there’s the suffering that’s due to pain and physical symptoms. BJ: Mm-hmm.

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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

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. One of your articles addresses that.

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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

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. I mean, they’re appropriate to enroll, I think. Eric: Yeah.

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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

JANUARY 30, 2025

However, lack of physical presence may make this contender struggle to land the emotional support punch that is at the very heart of palliative care. It’s the same measure we used in the New England journal article. Who will emerge victorious? This was a tremendous undertaking. Kudos to you and kudos to all these sites.

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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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

And then the duo, physical and cognitive function, those are the seven that… Alex: Oh, that’s a good way of remembering it. We brought up your JAGS article, which we’ll link to our show notes about some of the geriatric needs, falls. Drugs has to do with polypharmacy. And so that’s good for comorbid conditions.

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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

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. And great article. Eric: Yeah. Eric: Thank you.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A lot of those symptoms of depression can also be attributed to different kinds of physical symptoms. One of your articles also I thought was fascinating because in the cancer population, if you look at cancer pain, I think a lot of us think cancer pain, you treat it with neuropathic drugs, medications, opioids. Des: Yeah, sure.

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GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

First, we talk with Christine, a researcher and geriatrician from the University of North Carolina, who recently published a JAGS article titled Overdiagnosis of urinary tract infections by nursing home clinicians versus a clinical guideline. So my algorithm in that article is really based off the work Van Bo et all have done.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

We’ve invited Jacqueline Kruser and Bob Arnold on this week’s podcast to talk about their recently published JAMA Viewpoint article titled “ Reconsidering the Language of Serious Illness. ” You recently published an article in the New Yorker titled, I can’t even read my own, what was the title again? Of course not.

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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

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In an article in the NEJM (a published article this time, wonder of wonders!) I think we also lean into, I’ve learned so much from my social work colleagues and/or my spiritual care provider colleagues because they do really lean into some of these other aspects of the who, not just the physical. Why did you think that?”

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

They actually published a really good article in December on what’s the role, how should we diagnose Alzheimer’s disease in primary care? You do the history, you do a physical exam, you’re doing non specific, you know, blood tests and potentially imaging, and only after that do we even consider the role of biomarkers.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

I think we also lean into, I’ve learned so much from my social work colleagues and/or my spiritual care provider colleagues because they do really lean into some of these other aspects of the who, not just the physical. ” I asked the student, “Did you find legs on your physical exam?” Why did you think that?”

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

For example, there was one article that we reviewed for Jags where it asked great questions, they gave great prompts, and ChatGPT answered great questions about antipsychotics and gave a list of references to back up ChatGPT’s assertions. I actually like reading books and the physical,” and what the internet 2.0

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that. And I had no idea what that would look like or what I would do until I happened upon an article by actually a fellow Winnipegger, a man named Jim Brown who was an expert in mood disorders. She died at the age of 55, and was born with cerebral palsy.

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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

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. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2022 Perioperative Gabapentin Use in Older AdultsRevisiting Multimodal Pain Management JAMA IM.

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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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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

APRIL 28, 2022

One of the things I’ve been thinking as I listen to this and read articles in the journals and editorials is I wonder what this conversation sounds like to the layperson. I share this story of a patient I cared for who was in the later stages of ALS and had lost much of physical function, lost voice. Nathan: Yeah.

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