GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

David: Similarly informed by my clinical experience, really, actually, beginning in residency when I took care of a lot of sick folks in the hospital, particularly those with cancer and heart and lung diseases like these. It used to be a much more complicated model. And not just statistically significant, but clinically meaningful.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

And, you know, I just thought it was a really special song. Can you come and be in our clinic once a week? It used to also be a social worker and myself who would actually go to clinic and spend some time up there. I started our liver embedded liver clinic about seven and a half years ago. We’re talking about liver.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Based on this surge in evidence, the American Society of Clinical Oncologists recently updated their guidelines for care of older adults to state that all older adults receiving systemic therapy (including chemo, immuno, targeted, hormonal therapy) should receive geriatric assessment guided care. Mazie, welcome to GeriPal. William: Sure.

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GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

We’ve invited some very special guests to talk about the lower urinary tract – Christine Kistler and Scott Bauer. . So older adults between a third and a half have some clinically significant degree of lower urinary tract symptoms, depending on how you define it. Eric: So this is a complicated pathway, right? Scott: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Ten years ago we would have been hard pressed to find 3 clinical trial abstracts submitted to the annual meeting, much less high quality randomized trials with robust measures, sample sizes, and analytics plans. These were clinically significant and statistically significant improvements. I’m just stunned even writing that!

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Why this study was a success due to the sheer size (nearly 100,000 patients in about 30 EDs) of the study, and the fact that, as far as the investigators know, all study sites continue to employ the clinical decision support tool. And then we had clinical decision support. What is a clinical decision support? Long overdue.

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

Complicated grief? So am I measuring it for that specific clinic level quality metric or am I measuring it for my research study? Did the caregiver feel heard and understood? Did they have PTSD? Depression? Group visits are one way of reaching diverse communities to which advance care planning has not traditionally been targeted.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Clinical growth of geriatrics programs has lagged academic research, despite the rapid aging of the population. . In contrast to geriatrics, the evidence base for palliative care lagged clinical growth, in part because palliative care has no centralized “home” at the National Institutes of Health. By diagnosis? By prognosis?

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. So I really opted to specialize in lung cancer because I thought that was the appropriate population to build a supportive and palliative care research agenda. Jennifer: Thanks.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

Alex 01:24 And Elise Carey, who’s a palliative care doc and geriatrician and associate professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. And my grandkid, like, I need you to see this child and, like, how wonderful and special they are. This is a complicated case. Holly, welcome to GeriPal. I heard that.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

My voice is nothing special. Relationships are usually more complicated. Eric 34:49 And Jenny, how are you planning to involve music once you’re done with fellowship in your clinical work? I rely on recorded music for my patients mostly, and I think that’s based on my singing. Alex 09:00 Not true. That was beautiful.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Alex 02:20 (singing) “ Well, you wake up in the morning you hear the church bell ring and they march you to the table to see the same old thing ain’t no food upon the table ain’t no pork up in the pan but you better not complain boy, you get in trouble with a man let the midnight special shine a light on me.

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Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 133

GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

And you’re talking about developing a field, developing clinical experts in the field, research literature base, and a methodologic approach for a field that was also, as you said, marginalized. The post Palliative Care Pioneer: Susan Block appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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Illness IT Family Families 109

GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

And yet, we know little about the clinical experience of people with dementia in hospice. Eric: Alex, we have a super special today. We’ve got a hospice super special. Alex: We have a hospice super special day. People with dementia make up about half of hospice admissions. Transcript. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

She softened to her suffering, and she trusted me enough to have a moment, that she could look into that and see that, yes, she had her clinical judgment, which was fine, but also that there was another processes going on, which was her own suffering. Naomi: Well, I have a special place of not being a doctor within this great group of people.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Today we’re going to be talking about narrative writing specifically for healthcare professionals. Then in the OpenNotes work that I do, I was hired to take something complicated like transparency and patients having access to their full records in medicine, and then making that something that the lay public understood.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Eric 00:13 And Alex, we have a super special today, three different articles. Alex 00:18 Prognosis, super special today. Eric 04:39 Yeah, I see it used on inpatient, side on consult clinics in hospices. Eric 07:03 And those classic studies, were those done in the hospital and PALP care units and clinic?

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

Funding for research and clinical care is at risk, as USAID and PEPFAR (which is under USAID), are shuttered. And when she was here, she co founded the Golden Compass Clinic at San Francisco General Hospital for older adults living with HIV. In San Francisco, HIV care was more specialized in that. Millions of lives are at stake.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary A pragmatic trial evaluates the effectiveness of a treatment or intervention in real-world clinical practice. But the process of implementing this project across two big health systems in our area was very complicated and had its share of both challenges and rewards. We did it by the clinic level.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

On today’s podcast Areej El-Jawahri, oncologist specializing in blood cancers at MGH, says that sexual health is one of the top if not the top issue among cancer survivors. Alex 00:06 We are delighted to welcome back Areej El-Jawahri, who’s an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who specializes in blood cancers.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

That’s focused on older adults who are too frail to get into clinic. In that clinical experience, we saw a lot of older adults who would develop acute illness, often exacerbations of their chronic conditions. We relied on our clinical experience as geriatricians, that home-based primary care experience. Bruce: Sure.

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