GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

He has a book, which I have read, Facing Death, and we will discuss Facing Death: Spirituality, Science, and Surrender at the End of Life. I was asking about what was going to be special about the trip or if they were going to do things with their family. Today we talk with deep thinkers about this issue. Brad, welcome to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

She covers topics on death, dying, and hospice from a hospice nurse perspective, and she also has a book coming out called “ Nothing to Fear: Demystifying Death to Live More Fully ,” which is now available for pre-order. Her book is called Nothing to Fear. Sammy, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Sammy: Thank you so much.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. And so when you have that, that’s so good for the family. That’s so good for us. What did you learn?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

And in response, the family or patient looked at you like you were from another planet? Coming off as rote and scripted during a serious illness conversation can have a similar off-putting impact on patients and families. Links: – Uncanny Valley post on Josh’s fantastic substack Notes from a Family Meeting.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Our focus today, however, was on her most recently published book titled How to Say Goodby e. This beautiful book began as a very personal project for Wendy while she was the artist-in-residence at Zen Hospice. They had triple diagnoses, often life threatening illness, but also mental illness and usually some kind of addiction.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Summary Transcript CME Summary It is a battle royale on this weeks GeriPal podcast. But watch out!

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

And this case has been worked out the best in terms of the artificial intelligence suggesting diagnoses the clinician may have missed. ” So instead of reading a book, we’ll just read it on an iPad. I actually like reading books and the physical,” and what the internet 2.0 Alex: Mm-hmm. Alex: Go ahead Matt.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

And I think a big part of that journey was just having that right time, that right moment, with the right network and support groups of individuals, including my family, to really lift me up and allow me to celebrate my authentic self. If we think of discrimination, how people are treated by their biological family. Caregivers too.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 8, 2024

I first met Thomas when he visited UC Berkeley in the late 90’s after publishing his book, “ The Undertaking: Stories from the Dismal Trade.” We cover a wide range on this topic, weaving in our own stories of loss with Thomas’s experiences, stories, and poems from years of caring for families after their loved one’s have died.

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

If you look in the diagnostical statistical manual, right, the sort of handbook for diagnoses, most of the diagnostic criteria are in some important ways kind of arbitrary, right? And I wonder, like, how, when you think about these different buckets of diagnoses, especially for somebody like me who does not do psychiatry.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. They may have few family members, live alone. I called my parents, and we talked.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

2021 Association of Hospice Profit Status With Family Caregivers’ Reported Care Experiences. I’m very proud of the work that we do every day and we take care of patients and families no matter where they live or who they are to help them meet their end of life goals. How do we make this work for patients and families?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Harvey is probably best known for his work in developing dignity therapy, a psychological intervention designed specifically to address many of the psychological, existential, and spiritual challenges that patients and their families face as death approaches. And who’s a latest book is Dignity and Care: The Human Side of Medicine.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

So in truth, I called it a b r because the Book On B t, you ever read that, Bob? Eric: Yeah, great book. The results were that the chat bots got the diagnoses right and had an escalation strategy that was better than the doctors, as judged by blinded specialists reading the transcripts. Bob: No, but I know about it.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Redwing: So I grew up in a pretty intellectual family, but my brother and sister were six and 10 years older than me, and they were always feeding me literature and poetry. When I was about nine-years-old, they gave me a book of poems of Edna St. Because I’ve read poems my whole life, I have lots of poetry books.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

One in 10 people with newly diagnosed HIV is an older adult. And over that first 15 years, which was a very difficult time when there was no treatment at all available, everybody died and usually within months or a year or two of when they were diagnosed. And I also read that 1 out of 10 newly diagnosed HIV cases are in older adults.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Heather: I’m requesting the song Don’t You Forget About Me, which is one of the things that I think matters most to patients and families living with Alzheimer’s disease. Heather: So people in their twenties but strong family history. Eric: Wonderful. Jason: A bit of an irony there is that Simple Minds is the band.

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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.” Malaz: I love it.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

Kennedy comes to this memory cafe twice a month since being diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease in his late 50s. He recommends memory cafes to other people with dementia and their families. “I come in now and it’s like, it’s family, it’s a big, extended family. I get to meet them.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

” A noted expert on health policy issues, Julie is the author of the critically praised reference book “Health Care Politics and Policy A to Z,” now in its third edition. It is an editorially independent program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, which is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

Born into a family of physicians who warned her not to pursue medicine. Families can sue the employer financially liable for killing their own employees by overworking them (when they die of heart attacks, strokes and they’re found dead like by their computer because they’ve been working for so long). It’s Japanese.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Testing and outreach for HIV faltered in the South , a region that accounts for more than half of all HIV diagnoses. Half of new diagnoses today are in the South and a third are among people with low incomes. He kept his diagnosis hidden from friends and family because he knew how people talked about HIV.

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