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. Because a lot of my colleagues, who are like transplant coordinators for example, are asking, “Can you help us better screened for which older adults would be fit enough to go for transplant?

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JANUARY 25, 2024

The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. If I remember correctly, I think the average was, people were screening positive for depression in this study. I guess, I’d say, and I said this in the article, we saw more movement on the FACT-G subscales of social and emotional quality of life.

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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

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 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

JULY 28, 2022

And I just want to highlight, Jennifer has a great JPSM article that just came out. I had it on my screen. 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? What year did your New England journal article come out, Jennifer?

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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 I actually got started in cancer screening also, thanks to some mutual colleagues.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

I’m going to share my screen and we can talk about that. And I’m just going to explain it to our listeners, what I’m seeing on my screen. Let me share my screen here. 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.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

So if you can think about certain decisions like continuing to screen for certain cancers like colon cancer or breast cancer, or how strict you should control diabetes or blood pressures. We know that a lot of times with cancer screening, you don’t actually get benefits right away and it can cause potential harms right away.

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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

APRIL 6, 2023

It is a screening? And so then it would be nice to have those other than the chaplains, be aware of the spiritual component and then just ask some basic screening questions. And the screening questions would just allow you to know that. Who does the assessments, who does screening? I guess FICA is not as cool as SKY.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Thomas: But the person did screen and used a little bit of the and Social Network Scale and the UCLA Loneliness Scale. Like I said, the patient screened positive for it. Things like smoking status, level of physical activity, a variety of other lifestyle and biological risk factors that may be alternative explanations.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

And I got from your article, while the peaks follow this pattern, people feel a lot of different things where it just reminds me of the times I’ve grieved. And what we mean is like they’re physical numbness or they trip over that particular symptom, but it’s that sense of detachment from living people.

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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

DECEMBER 7, 2023

And on that, I found a link to this article by Rick Moody called Elders in Climate Change, No Excuses, in which he argues that elders are the group that benefited most from the massive consumption of fossil fuels in the post World War II eras. Ruth: That’s not prevention, that’s screening. What does that actually look like?

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AUGUST 15, 2024

Ongoing reports from patients about anti-Asian hate experiences Should clinicians screen for Anti-Asian hate? question used to screen for domestic violence. See also guides for how to confront and discuss anti-Asian hate in these articles in the NEJM and JGIM. Add to this, “do you feel safe outside the home?” Alex 15:37 Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

It’s not a new debate but has gathered steam at least in palliative care circles since Sean Morrisons published a JPM article titled “ Advance Directives/Care Planning: Clear, Simple, and Wrong.” And it was really good for my mental and physical… Physical health, obviously, but mental health really.

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APRIL 20, 2023

In terms of their risk, in terms of how we think of preventive health, as we think of screening, all of those things, I would turn around to the geriatricians and say, “Check your implicit bias. We’ll have all of the articles we talked about on our show notes. Than someone who is perhaps dependent on all their ADLs.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Too many people do because it’s really hard to keep their loved ones at home for the cost, the enormous financial, mental and physical strain for the family. We’ll cover why the GUIDE model is important (hint – it all comes down to funding), how it was developed, what components will it include, and how it will be evaluated.

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GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

So take a listen and if you want a deeper dive into some of the references we discuss on the podcast, here is a list: Medscape article on how “ COVID-19 Vaccines Work Better and for Longer Than Expected Across Populations, Including Immunocompromised Individuals”. Stat news article about variants/COVID becoming more predictable.

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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. So Carly, I’m going to start off with you. What instigated you to write an op-ed?

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