GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. Who do we have with us today? I look forward to your findings of your study. Devon: Thanks so much.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

I’m sort of seeing them in clinic for consideration of palliative radiation, they have a lot going on. But I think where it ends up causing problems is just if they’re going to have many sessions, transport to and from, and just the overall cost that can be essentially not feasible for the hospice.

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Patient-Centered Referral Patients IT 102

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Find out on this weeks podcast where we invite Joseph Greer, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson to talk about their recent JAMA article on Telehealth vs In-Person Early Palliative Care for Patients With Advanced Lung Cancer – A Multisite Randomized Clinical Trial. So no differences between the modalities.

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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Love to talk about also in the serious illness population. I don’t practice clinically in outpatient settings, and often the folks I’m seeing are there for other kinds of issues. So we’re trying to help replace the transportation option. How did you both get interested in this as a topic? Is this our role?

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IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

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. Alex 16:45 That really rings true with my clinical experience. And I was asking this patient about if he had filled out an advanced directive.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 109

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

In case you miss the introductions at the start of the podcast, Bernie and Laurie are married, and offer wonderful reminiscence of their clinical practice over the last several decades. They were seriously ill and had a chance to get to know. Now as I understand it, you and Dr. Widera talked in clinic about this and that.

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Family Families Patient-Centered IT 112

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

nursing homes grapple with serious illnesses, and roughly half experience dementia. The reason that you’re in a nursing home is because you have some mix of serious illness and multimorbidity, usually functional impairments. We can’t possibly provide enough care to all people with serious illness.

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