GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

all of whom focus their efforts on educating the general public about living and dying with a serious illness. 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.

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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.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The illness narratives suffering, healing, and the human condition. Panelists BJ Miller and Naomi Saks have no relationships to disclose. ” So there’s this element too, of what’s suffering in relationship to others, and can we compare? It’s the relationships to the world. Pain Manag Nurs.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . Unpacking characteristics of spirituality through the lens of persons of colour living with serious illness: The need for nurse-based education to increase understanding of the spiritual dimension in healthcare. It’s since spread to over 70 VAs. Bennett, C.R.,

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

He is also author of the book, “ Walk with the Weary: Lessons in Humanity in Health Care ,” and was featured in this Atlantic article. I have written about it in the book. Alex: I love the story of this book, how it starts so locally and then moves on to the Kerala region and then moves to India. Tom: Okay, great.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

Jenny Chen is a palliative care fellow at Yale who regularly sings for her seriously ill patients. And we got all into his family stuff and how he’d been suffering with cancer and his goal. What’s your favorite book? Just encourage patients and families to bring music into their healthcare experience.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Yes, it means to cloak, but theres more Whole-person-care Total pain Healing as a process distinct from the deterioration of the body Sympomatologists The patient and family as the unit of care Our guests referenced many articles on this podcast, linked above and below. I loved the relationship that we developed and the fun we had.

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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. So those types of relationships, clergy, non family members, we talk about, I think cohabitating unmarried couples. Is that fair?

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GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

There’s all this stuff that we’re supposed to be doing at that stage of life and then you add the complexity of the serious illness. It is really difficult for the patients and the families. Young adulthood is super hard. Daniel, does that play a role as far as… I have a 14-year-old son. Thoughts on that?

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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.

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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

JUNE 15, 2023

” 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 Because the in serious illness care and care for older adults, their care is often very complex. Is there a true relationship with that? Alex: Go ahead Matt.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Eric 01:04 So we’re going to be talking about transgender health in older adults and those with serious illness. And this really allowed, I think, other people to celebrate themselves and the families, family members who are going through the same type of journey. It’s like this one big book that you can access.

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Doctor Rachel

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

This is a HUGE subject and this is a brief attempt to organize my early thoughts on right relationship, through the lens of my own life. I also mention a number of books throughout, which give more detailed accounts of the points discussed.) Marriage and relationship, certainly. Completely open to feedback and to co-creation.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest hosts Lynn Flint and Anne Kelly have no relationships to disclose. Not the most common circumstances that people with serious illness face where attention and understanding of what my goals and values are. Eric: I do not want my family to listen to my podcasts.

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

Daneila Lamas wrote about this issue in the New York Times this week -after we recorded – in her story, a family requested an herbal infusion for their dying mother via feeding tube. If its potentially unsafe, but has robust evidence, well thats most of the treatments we offer seriously ill patients! Ivermectin to treat cancer.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

Eric: I’m looking forward to talking about art and humor in palliative care and we’re caring for seriously ill patients. Because just like in the bedside space, if you are using humor in a way that builds bonds and relationships with the patient can be really beautiful, and normalizing. Nathan: Hello, excited to be here.

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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

MARCH 6, 2025

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. So we’re going to be today talking about serious illness palliative care in the homelessness population.

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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

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.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

We also briefly mention Susan Wong’s terrific studies that found a disconnect between older adults with renal failure’s expressed values, focused on comfort, and their advance care planning and end-of-life care received, which focused on life extension; and another study that found quality of life was sustained until late in the illness course.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

So whether it’s an encounter with a patient or whether it’s a family meeting or a clinical practice meeting or a feedback session with a fellow, the idea that we have both the ability to be very full and open and also selective and disciplined about how it is that we. What can we do next to help that colleague?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

And this is, I’m going to go a little wonky just for a second because like looking at the 11 things that you looked at for trauma events, some seem like pretty universal trauma events, like having a life threatening illness, a child of yours who died being physically abused when you were young. Trauma informed care approach.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Sometimes you read a book and get a flash of insight – that “ah ha!” Also hat tip to Matthew Growdon for recommending the book. Today we talk with Bob Arnold, who has a long list of recommendations for books that have the potential to generate an “ah ha!” Please shop locally. Please shop locally.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Her most recent book is Elderhood. You know, she would have had 90 really good years, and she would have just gone into a coma with no blood pressure and died, you know, with, like, a day and a half of illness. She entertained her family. Thanksgiving’s coming up, you’re having your family, Christmas coming up.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Dealing with conflict in caring for the seriously ill: “it was just out of the question” JAMA 2005. So many times, family caregivers have to argue with their loved ones about getting more help in the home or moving them to a place that has safety, has close proximity to medical care. Journal of Patient Experience.

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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. Matt, and others, including Craig, just not too long ago, wrote a book called Loss and Grief: Personal Stories of Doctors and Other Healthcare Professionals.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Poetry helps us grapple with our own experiences of illness. 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. To let it go. .

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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. That’s in my view as analogous as to any other illness. You need the plaques to have that illness. Eric: Wonderful. Jason: Oh, well.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

Alex 00:07 We are delighted to welcome Peter Selwyn, who is a family medicine and palliative medicine doctor and chairman of the Department of Family and Social Medicine and director of the Palliative Care Program at Montefiore E instein and author of Surviving the the Personal Journey of an AIDS Doctor. Who are our guests?

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