GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

– Anticipatory corpse book mentioned several times on the podcast. There’s no special thing to say, but sometimes we’re tempted to treat serious illness communication in that way, conversational judo or something, that I can maneuver around an encounter and create something new. Key message: Listen to the music.

Illness 101

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Anne: Well, speaking of your kids, a very special, sometimes listener, chimed in named Ren Smith. We’re willing to spend $50,000 a year for individuals for their expensive pharmacy medication. We shouldn’t be mandating individuals, this should be an optional thing for individuals. Alex: Okay. Alex: Thank you.

IT 126

IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 126

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

So there’s this, what is suffering to the individual, and is there some threshold that we could say, “This is real suffering,” or “This is the suffering we talk about in geriatrics or palliative care”? Naomi: Well, I have a special place of not being a doctor within this great group of people.

IT 137

IT Families Family Physicals 137

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. But are we really taking full advantage of ALL social workers have to offer our field? Thank you very, very much.

IT 102

IT Families Family Clinic 102

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

And welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Ira Byock, who is a author and well-known, has written several books about hospice, inspired many to go into the field, and is the founder of- Ira: The Institute for Human- Alex: The Institute for Human Caring. Joseph: Yes, This is the first time. I’m excited. Alex: Welcome. Eric: Great.

IT 113

IT Provider Patients Families 113

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.” Eric 00:05 And Alex, we have a special episode today — B etween T wo U rns. Props a prayer book under their chin to keep their mouth closed. This is Eric Widera. It just depends.

IT 124

IT Families Family Relationship 124

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The SAMHSA defines trauma as an event, series events or set of circumstances experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening, with lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional or spiritual. Well, being a pretty comprehensive definition.

IT 66

IT Patient-Centered Screening Patients 66

GeriPal

MARCH 31, 2022

Links to essays and books by Marilyn McEntyre. She is written a number of books, including one that’s probably most relevant to today. She also teaches people who are interested in writing their own books. Steve had a very special ability in that. I think my only book of poems is on Shel Silverstein, Running Babbit.

IT 70

IT Patients Medical Illness 70

GeriPal

MARCH 16, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary So you want to write a book. So you want to write a book! So…you want to write a book?!? You can hear our prior podcast on Louise’s book here ). We talk with them about writing for the lay public, including: Why write a book for the lay public? How did they start writing a book?

IT 105

IT Healthcare Professional Healthcare Transportation 105

GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

This week we’re going on to episode two, which is for me one of the most special episodes we’ve done in GeriPal for a very, very long time. Eric: And in the end, we have a very special part where we actually get a tour of their gardens outside of the hospice unit. I am there with individuals who are dying.

IT 97

IT Families Family Board-Certified 97

GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

Elizabeth Eckstrom is a geriatrician, professor of medicine at OHSU, and author of a new book, the Gift of Aging. That’s Oregon Health Sciences University, and whose new book is T he G ift of Aging. And for any, any diet, it can, we can really tweak it to an individual’s preferences, their needs, that kind of thing.

IT 116

IT Diabetes Chronic Disease Patient-Centered 116

GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

In San Francisco, HIV care was more specialized in that. Eric 26:39 But I’m also hearing that 1 out of 10 newly diagnosed cases are not those individuals. How do you think about polypharmacy for these individuals? I couldnt help it, forgive me dear listeners, I had to do a longer than usual cut at the start!

Primary Care 94

Primary Care IT Provider Clinic 94

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

There’s a book called The 36-hour day for dementia caregivers. He created fee for service, special fee for depression. Eric: … you’re getting paid for individual encounters, not going to people’s homes, not being paid for all of the additional support that’s needed for comprehensive cancer care.

Patient-Centered 125

Patient-Centered IT Families Family 125

GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

To examine how clinicians might act in the face of such bans, we turn to Lori Freedman, who wrote a book about clinicians (primarily Ob-Gyn’s) who work in Catholic Hospitals. Many links: Mara Buchbinder’s book – Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America. It’s bigger. It’s bigger than you and you are not me.

Provider 19

Provider Medical Hospital IT 19