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Dysphagia Revisited: A Podcast with Raele Donetha Robison and Nicole Rogus-Pulia

GeriPal

So, if it’s a hospitalized patient, usually the referral will come through to the SLP service. We don’t have to go into that, but I do want to highlight, you had a JAGS article that was published on pre-hospitalization dysphagia and feeding tube placement in nursing home residents with advanced dementia.

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Dignity at the End of Life: A Podcast with Harvey Chochinov

GeriPal

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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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

Some more assessment also potentially some interventional around total pain, including spiritual suffering that actually may worsen physical pain. 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. So there is this overlap.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

GeriPal

So, basically, with a stepped care model, the goal is to tailor care delivery to the patient’s needs while at the same time utilizing less clinician resources. Chris 07:41 Yeah, it’s a really interesting thing, because the 2010 article was solving the problem of, hey, send us patients, we promise we won’t kill them.

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

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 physicalPhysical health, obviously, but mental health really.

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

GeriPal

You wrote the SF Chronicle article on an op-ed. We were the highest utilizers of telemedicine in the whole UCSF health system at that time which we’re very proud of. In our particular practice, we take care of a very large population of patients with ALS who of course have a lot of physical disability.