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GeriPal
JANUARY 16, 2025
Summary Transcript CME Summary Many older adults lose decision-making capacity during serious illnesses, and a significant percentage lack family or friends to assist with decisions. How should we care for unrepresented individuals in inpatient and outpatient settings? Why not use the older term unbefriended? Is that fair?
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. I won and ended up producing a little book called how to say goodbye. She has a TED talk. When were you. That was it.
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GeriPal
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . VA “gets” the importance of storytelling in medicine, without the need for reams of research to back it up. 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.
GeriPal
DECEMBER 15, 2022
On today’s podcast we talk with Jason Karlawish, who we’ve had on previously talking about his book The Problem of Alzheimer’s and with Aaron Kesselhim, to discuss FDA approval of Aducanumab , as well as frequent guest and host Ken Covinsky. . Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live.
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.
GeriPal
MAY 15, 2025
This specific study , published in JAMA Internal Medicine, was conducted in 17 ICUs in North Carolina. We did another nudging trial where the deep default was for default palliative care consultations for high risk patients, and it significantly increased individuals who were receiving palliative care. Prior-auth forms?
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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