GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. Many were community hospitals. P AI R stands for Palliative and Advanced Illness Research Center. What is sludge? Where was it?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition. The patient’s capacity to make decisions was marginal, and his sons were shouldering much of the responsibility.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Care Ecosystem.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

Rob Kennedy mingled with about a dozen other people in a community space in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania. And that support is for the patient and their caregiver — because both can experience social isolation and distress after a diagnosis. At a memory cafe, having fun together and being social supports the well-being of participants.

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