GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So I make the point, they often say, “Oh, you have this special population,” like pediatrics, where it’s 10% or something. 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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GeriPal

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

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. Eric Cassell’s article, The Nature of Suffering, that you might think suffering would appear in the definition of palliative care. Pain Manag Nurs. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. And I just want to highlight, Jennifer has a great JPSM article that just came out. I had it on my screen. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Jennifer. Jennifer: Thanks.

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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. My voice is nothing special. Eric 11:13 And, Tyler, that’s why I loved your article at J Gym on bringing music and benefits to patients at the bedside. Alex 09:00 Not true.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

There is a special emphasis on the use of public health models that prioritize harm reduction and person-centered care to prevent drug-related fatalities and curb the opioid epidemic along lines of race and class. Building Bridges Between Evidence and Policy in Mental Health Services Research: Introducing the Policy Review Article Type.

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GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

We’ve invited some very special guests to talk about the lower urinary tract – Christine Kistler and Scott Bauer. . So I actually got started in cancer screening also, thanks to some mutual colleagues. Like for me, my NF1, is it a good idea to get screened for cancer or not? Chrissy: That’s fascinating.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

We also explored several questions with them, including how to define trauma, its prevalence in older adults, the impact of past traumatic experiences, the potential triggers of trauma screening, and the application of trauma-informed principles in clinical practice. To learn more about CME for other GeriPal episodes, click here.

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PEMBlog

JULY 10, 2024

And I’ve got a special guest host. I recently published a review article on syphilis in Pediatrics in Review, which you should check out. A few brief points on congenital syphilis, which is covered more in depth in the review article. And let’s face it, it’s not just a disease for Medieval royalty.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Despite these substantial needs, specialized palliative care beyond hospice is rare in nursing homes. How to think about primary and specialized palliative care in this setting. Many also suffer from distressing symptoms like pain. In addition, about 25% of all deaths in the United States occur within these facilities. Go ahead, Alex.

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GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

So in our trial, because of security reasons, we are required by Health Canada to store the substance in a special secure area in my office. 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. James 01:34 Yeah, right on.

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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. And the editors know how to get people drawn into that article. See, I’m still struggling exactly what to call this.

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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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

And also it’s a little bit of an insult to one’s identity to feel like if this special person in your life can be forgotten, then you can be forgotten. But our living memory home is a way to both maintain that connection, because that’s the fear is that you’re going to lose this connection to this very special person.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

– @AlexSmithMD Here’s a link to an article about the Palliative Story Exchange. ** This podcast is not CME eligible. So has a special resonance for, I think, a lot of people who are Tragically H ip fans. One of the questions was, “Can you name a song by the Tragically Hip?” Transcript Eric 00:01 Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

She’s a geriatric nurse practitioner specializing in palliative care, and assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. And to keep it short work for an article. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Joan Carpenter, who I just did the State of the Science with at the AAHPM HPNA meeting. Joan: Thanks.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

I actually wonder though, since we’re on a GeriPal broadcast, I think that people are under emphasizing the special risk of older people. Alex: I wanted to also say Rick Moody has this wonderful quote from the Talmud at the end of his article, “Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief.

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GeriPal

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. So the reasons for not screening are time constraint.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

A review article, which I still like to go to. Eric 18:59 What is the recommendation currently for HIV screening in older adults or in non older adults? In San Francisco, HIV care was more specialized in that. I couldnt help it, forgive me dear listeners, I had to do a longer than usual cut at the start! And I also remember.

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

[laughter] Bob: That’s what happens when junior faculty get invited on the podcast [laughter] Eric: So we’re going to be talking about the article that just came out in JAMA on a priming intervention for goals of care conversations in hospitalized patients with serious illness. We’ll have a link to the article on our notes.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Look also for a forthcoming article by Mike and Redwing in Journal of Pain and Symptom Management on poetry as a healing modality, to be published mid May (will add link when out). We haven’t decided exactly when we’ll publish this podcast, but we may delay it until that article comes out. Institute for Poetic Medicine.

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GeriPal

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. Alex: But the longer title’s Ethno-Geriatrics and Special Populations. Than someone who is perhaps dependent on all their ADLs.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

So I thought… And I was doing this for the United States Preventive Services Task Force because we were looking at the evidence to what’s the benefit and harm of screening, and I had to look all over. He created fee for service, special fee for depression. And I talked with Jürgen. It didn’t help. Think about CPC+.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

Yvonne Lindgren article mentioned on podcast. That’s what I had done with my abortion research, and I had also studied newborn screening policies evolving. One of the key points in this Art Kaplan article is that very few people outside of Jack Kevorkian have been convicted of murder or some other serious felony offense.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back two very special guests who were with us early in the COVID pandemic, and really shown a light on what was happening for the rest of us who could see this giant wave coming, and were just thirsty for information and experiences from those people who were experiencing it early. This is Eric Widera.

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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? Joe: Yeah.

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