GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

About half of patients who are over the age of 65 start dialysis with a GFR of over 9, which is sort of the level below which we have clinical trial evidence for suggesting that there may not be a benefit to starting at that level of GFR. Clinical experience. Maria 29:14 We’ll be more statistical than clinical, I think.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

And I think, in a medical sense, for me, taking it home is it’s whenever a patient leaves a clinical encounter and they still have a lot of questions, or they’re confused and they’re unclear about the next steps. And any examples from your own clinical experiences of miscommunication? Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Often podcasts meet clinical reality. But rarely does the podcast and clinical reality meet in the same day. Ann Henshaw is an occupational therapist who works clinically at Georgetown and teaches at GW. Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Ann Henshaw who brought this podcast idea to us.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The songs about how saving lives is actually a pretty complicated business. And when I was getting my PhD, I wanted to find something that spoke to me, and I had been doing clinical work in nursing homes. And that’s the complication here is there’s so many things that the staff can be trained on. Alex: Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

She softened to her suffering, and she trusted me enough to have a moment, that she could look into that and see that, yes, she had her clinical judgment, which was fine, but also that there was another processes going on, which was her own suffering. .” Then, we had a moment, like she softened, right? That’s beautiful, Naomi.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Although, certainly when you start facing complications of serious illness, it is increasingly important to engage as individuals and conversations about goals, values, and preferences. So it’s an example of something that can start outside of the healthcare system and move its way in. Rebecca: I think I’ll also add too.

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GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

We talk about why it’s so hard with Abby Rosenberg (chief of PC at DFCI and Boston Childrens), Nick Purol (clinical social worker at DFCI and Boston Childrens), Daniel Eison (pediatric PC doc and co-host of PediPal). Patients that remind us of loved ones, patients that are often younger, really hard stories, complicated issues.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

So take a listen and if you are interested in learning more, check out these wonderful links: Harvey’s latest book is called, Dignity in Care: The Human Side of Medicine Intensive Caring: Reminding Patients They Matter Michael J. And who’s a latest book is Dignity and Care: The Human Side of Medicine. Harvey: I feel welcome.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In his book The Hour of our Death Philip Aries described a long evolution in western civilization of cultural attitudes towards dying. More recently Sharon Kaufman ‘s book And a Time to Die described the ways in which physicians, nurses, hospital systems, and payment mechanisms influenced the hour and manner of patient’s deaths.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

I mean, Cass Sunstein and Dick Thauer wrote a book entitled nudge. Because it’s complicated and we don’t want to over complicate prayer listeners. And it’s the right thing to do clinically for patients and families. Eric 11:31 Behavioral interventions or. Alex 11:33 I mean, there are all these terms?

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Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 116

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

And it’s really interesting because if you look at other studies like using other cohorts, like one out of Canada and they’ve used the clinical frailty scale, they have similar like Kaplan Meier Curves where it’s the really frailty that’s driving that risk of mortality and frailty, we’re not seeing it as much.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Hospital 96

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

You’d imagine though that our professional expertise and experiences in helping patients and families cope with loss and grief would be helpful in managing our own personal losses. Eric: We’re going to be talking about loss and grief and the role of debriefing for healthcare providers. Turns out, it’s maybe not.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

Funding for research and clinical care is at risk, as USAID and PEPFAR (which is under USAID), are shuttered. And when she was here, she co founded the Golden Compass Clinic at San Francisco General Hospital for older adults living with HIV. Millions of lives are at stake. Meredith wore a shirt that said Silence=death.

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