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

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Often podcasts meet clinical reality. But rarely does the podcast and clinical reality meet in the same day. Ann Henshaw is an occupational therapist who works clinically at Georgetown and teaches at GW. Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Ann Henshaw who brought this podcast idea to us.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It’s like how liberating it is to eliminate resentments, regrets and envy from our lives and how great it is in our clinical practice when we’re able to help families reconcile after an estrangement, how much relief that brings. Eric: That’s a complicated form then. You write who the surrogate is. I want designation.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

We didn’t make them communicate it, but we focused them on it, which makes them more likely to then utilize that information. Because it’s complicated and we don’t want to over complicate prayer listeners. And it’s the right thing to do clinically for patients and families. Eric 23:03 If you want.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that. And so the importance of the picture and the epiphany that really came many years later, I published a paper in the Journal of Clinical Oncology called Dignity in the Eye of the Beholder. Which is… In fact, I was approached by the Mayo Clinic recently.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Eric 07:03 Yeah, it’s hard because you can also think about it, let’s say, because we see palliative heart failure clinics. So people like palliative cardiology clinics where honestly, heart failure management is a lot of symptom management. Are there any palliative care psychiatry clinics? Alex 40:57 Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And we had a greater decrease in symptom intensity at day seven versus the usual care group by both a clinically meaningful and a statistically significant difference. And resource utilization was very low in all the groups. And resource utilization was very low in all the groups. So absolutely, it is complicated.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

And yet, we know little about the clinical experience of people with dementia in hospice. My interest in this paper and this topic goes back a long time and is based on my clinical experience as a hospice nurse, where I was taking care of what I felt like and what we’ve confirmed with research is about half of my patients.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

I thought that was an interesting take on doing this, because a mother-daughter relationship can be complicated, can be wonderful, and it’s hard to navigate when you lose your mother. We utilize the generous donations from our foundation to support the end-of-life doula program. Is that right, Jane?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Should we focus on something else, both from a clinical and a research perspective? And I think the advanced planning debate is really a question of, how do we help this very complicated situation? They’re looking at difficult outcomes, utilization outcomes, right? Does watching a video impact utilization to that degree?

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