GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

As I’ve been blogging about this for a couple months now, I’m really trying to find anyone who loves these things. And really, the best that had ever been looked at, especially in our population and sort of a cancer serious illness population. Drew: I’ve published a draft version of it on the blog.

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Mesa Family Physician

JUNE 11, 2025

Preventive Care: Your First Line of Defense Against Illness When it comes to your health, waiting until something goes wrong isn’t the best approach. Instead, adopting a preventive mindset can help reduce your risk of illness, improve long-term outcomes, and even limit the need for more serious interventions. Are they the same?

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

Eric: Well, before we talk about dysphagia and revisit it, which is also interesting, because this is our first podcast, I think on dysphagia, but we’ve talked about it before on GeriPal, in our blog. But estimates in community dwelling older adults are around 15%. I think someone has a song request for Alex. Raele: I do.

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

uh, ill defined epigastric or chest pain, and it’s often worse by eating or lying down after meals. Remember, our community pediatricians, family medicine doctors, are brilliant. I’ll take an email, a comment on the blog, a direct message on X or another social media platform. They can handle this problem.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary How do people react when they hear they have a serious illness? And some people, in addition or instead, engage in deep introspection on how to make meaning or live with or understand this experience of serious illness. Shock, “like a car is rushing straight at me” (says Bill Gardner on our podcast).

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 28, 2025

70 people (14%) have been hospitalized for serious illnesses, and one child and one adult have died. Increasing vaccine hesitancy has depressed measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccination rates in the affected jurisdictions, making more people vulnerable to the highly contagious illness. since last week.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Not the most common circumstances that people with serious illness face where attention and understanding of what my goals and values are. I actually wrote a blog post about this when we were a blog. We were a blog? So, I’m super proud of being able to reach out to people in rural communities. Lynn: Great.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Unpacking characteristics of spirituality through the lens of persons of colour living with serious illness: The need for nurse-based education to increase understanding of the spiritual dimension in healthcare. What Mattered Then, Now, and Always: Illness Narratives From Persons of Color. Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

To be eligible in Canada patients must have a “ grievous and irremediable ” condition, including disability ; they do not have to have a terminal illness with a prognosis of less than 6 months. A planned expansion of MAID to include people with mental illness was placed on hold until March 2024. So less than six months to live.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

So during the dissertation, that was a method for my PhD research and that’s related to… I was learning about African American elders experiences of psych-social-spiritual healing and serious illness. Tell me about your illness. So that’s a title of a publication in qualitative health research.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. Ken Covinsky wrote about it for GeriPal. Lauren: Yeah. Lauren: Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For example, we spend the first half talking about a RCT simulation study of clinician verbal and non-verbal communication with a seriously ill patient with cancer. As we’ve written about on GeriPal when we were a blog (a decade ago!) Of note, we talked about implicit bias in depth in this podcast with Kimberely Courseen.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Alex 12:36 And most of our listeners are like clinician, practicing clinicians caring for older adults, people with serious illness. Alex 21:31 Blog post, if we’re talking about the same study, was like, fast food palliative care, in and out palliative care, something like that. This is Eric Widera. Is this superior to that?

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GeriPal

MARCH 16, 2023

Louise: Well again, if you take that approach, you also get rid of ableism and ageism against children and prejudice against people who are ill. But I was focused on his very ill wife. Are you trying to reach people in your local community? Whether again, be transportation, food delivery, things like that. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Bob: Well, it changed how I helped talk to people who are seriously ill and it acknowledged some of the feelings that I have and helped me be more aware of those feelings when I’m taking care of patients. Can I ask, how did it change you, how you think about talking to folks with serious illness? Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Ill end this intro with a quote from Deb Grady in an editors commentary to our thought piece in JAMA Internal Medicine about this topic: Voice technology that creates a searchable database of patients every encounter with a health care professional? Alex 08:36 Right. Eric 08:37 That’s what we really want to know. It may not be.

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PEMBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

So again, you are treating with antibiotics to prevent more people from getting sick, more so than shortening the duration of illness. And we need to broadly improve and ensure access to vaccinations through our community clinics. But do not significantly alter disease progression once the paroxysmal stage begins.

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