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. Sure, yeah.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. We also take a dive into these 2 articles that Connie first authored: Palliative care in nursing homes: A qualitative study on referral criteria and implications for research and practice. And what does that referral process look like? Connie 19:46 Yeah.

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GeriPal

JULY 3, 2025

09:04 And I think that’s where the irony came from as well, because of the not only confusion within our field, but the confusion of patients and families who are the consumers of palliative care and the referral sources. Several great articles about this. And I’m so used to the opposite misconception. Survivors of care.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

So I get all the referrals from my great colleagues in primary care. I mean, I don’t want to speak to your healthcare system and what’s happened, but that to me seems inappropriate. But you wrote an article about what primary care Needs. Cant we skip all this and just send some blood-based biomarkers?

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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. If you have access to that, I think, is the way to go. Eric 14:10 Yeah.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

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. And decided, interesting article, but it raised as many questions as it answered. ” And we began writing and we got our first grant.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

We start off part one by interviewing Michele DiTomas, who has been the longstanding Medical Director of the Hospice unit and currently is also the Chief Medical Executive for the Palliative care Initiative with the California Correctional Healthcare Services. Eric: Because that article wasn’t too long ago. Did I get that close?

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

These hick pick codes are available to any chaplain in a healthcare system. Really important person, who later in his life got very interested in healthcare. And as you’ve written in your work, there is a justified mistrust of the healthcare system and an ethic of struggle that needs to be appreciated.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

So we have a list of various interventions like hospice referral, like more intensive treatment for blood pressure, more intensive treatment for diabetes, for dysglycemia, hyperglycemia, statins, bisphosphonates. Eric: Okay, I’m going to jump to the articles. Let’s start off with your article, James. James: Yeah.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Then there was that New England Journal catalyst study that showed that the healthcare executives thought that 60% of the people in their hospitals who could benefit from palliative care weren’t getting it. Look at the way they talk to the public, referral like HIV prep. So that’s the other part. So that’s the thing.

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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. And honestly, this was not a well planned out thing.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

So we looked at hospital referral regions, and we looked at high- and low- intensity regions. And to keep it short work for an article. Caroline: And I love how you highlight the importance of these staff biases, perhaps implicit bias that is driving some of these healthcare decisions. Ruth: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So you, Jennifer, probably have, like, the most cited, probably should be the most cited randomized controlled trial of palliative care and lung cancer patients that everybody, every palliative care article I’ve seen, whether or not it works, always includes, it was outpatient palliative care in lung cancer patients. We’re what?

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

It’s that first place that you start where it may not be the AAAs job, but we’ve organized where they have to have the partnerships and they know who the players are and they know who to make a referral to. And that referral can be done in real time, a soft handoff. And then, the system responds in turn.

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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. Ideally the conversation would happen before, but also clinicians were able to make referrals to facilitators. Is that right?

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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.” If they had a healthcare agent, then this would be better, right? Get the hospice referral. So you need to do them in order.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Here are some articles that Kira and I have written about the topic, and that’s really how my interest in addressing sexual health concerns started. Eric 17:46 Well, how do you train them, the frontline people seeing these patients, healthcare providers, geriatricians, oncologists? And I work right next to Don at the time.

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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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