GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. Tell me about your illness. How did you get into this? Heather: Sure.

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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. But that was separate from MAID.

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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

MARCH 20, 2025

We discussed what makes an illness terminal, what goes into assessing capacity for an action as simple as requesting something to drink, and whether the TV show Severance illuminates any of these answers. But before we talk about this subject, about nutrition, hydration at the end of life, people with advanced illness, or maybe not so much.

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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. I came from a family where you didn’t write things down, somebody could find them and hold you to them or all of that kind of stuff. But I was focused on his very ill wife.

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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

APRIL 11, 2024

This podcast was initially sparked by Josh’s “Note From a Family Meeting” Substack post titled “ Ambivalence in Clinical Decision-Making ,” which discussed Bryanna’s and Jenny’s 2022 article titled “ Two Minds, One Patient: Clearing up Confusion About Ambivalence.” Josh, welcome back to GeriPal. Josh: Thank you, you all. Is that right?

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary As Betty Ferrell says on our podcast today, nurses play an essential role in care of people with serious illness. He is a palliative care physician at the Durham VA Medical Center in Duke and blogs on Substack at Notes from a Family Meeting. Doing home care? Hospice visits? In the ICU at the bedside?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

For example, is reluctance to take on more responsibility at work or relocate because you feel inadequate or is it because of genuine concern about the impact on your family? Can I ask, how did it change you, how you think about talking to folks with serious illness? money, power, influence) and greater value on connection and meaning.

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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? You basically don’t even ask the family, you just stop the bleeding.

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