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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

The idea was to create a robust community-based infrastructure that could help older adults succeed in their homes and communities, whether they were healthy, how to keep them healthy or they were at imminent risk of emergency room visits, hospitalizations, or nursing home placements. To Susan’s point.

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

GeriPal

I had fun trying to make a danceable version with electronic drums for the audio-only podcast. And because of this encounter, this patient went to the emergency room twice due to having panic episodes that felt like heart attacks. We do a lot of clinical focused discussions. We’re not a general policy podcast.

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

And it was really good for my mental and physical… Physical health, obviously, but mental health really. Should we focus on something else, both from a clinical and a research perspective? And then three weeks later, you’re in the emergency room and somebody else talks with you for a little while.

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