GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Analyzing the Health and Retirement Study, she found 60% of older adults screened positive for depression in the last year of life (related study here ). We saw that around 60% of people were screening positive for depression in the last month before death. Or is it that I’m just not screening? That’s a lot.

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Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

We covered: The first parody song I wrote, for AGS 2018 in Orlando , about this article by Nancy Schoenborn on how to discuss stopping cancer screening. This was 2018 in AGS Orlando, and they did a song about when to stop screening for cancer for colon cancer. How to talk to patients about screening colonoscopies. Ken 10:29 Yes.

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IT Hospital Screening Patients 64

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

We then walk through how we should screen for anxiety and how we should think about a differential. The question I would ask is, how helpful is that in our clinical practice? So we put those cutoffs, and I asked the question earlier, how helpful are those cutoffs in clinical practice? And so bathe is an acronym. That often.

Illness 129

Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 129

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

I don’t practice clinically in outpatient settings, and often the folks I’m seeing are there for other kinds of issues. And I’ve been to some presentations that use that same breaking bad news model for having these driving conversations, as are used in palliative care. I’m going to first turn to Emmy.

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IT Families Family Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

We’ll discuss three recent clinical trials involving patients with serious illness, joined by our guests James Downar , Ali John Zarrabi , and Margaret Ross. Alex 00:33 Our next guest is Margaret Ross, who’s a clinical psychologist and researcher at St. Dr. James, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. James 00:32 Good afternoon.

Illness 107

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 107

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

I, for example, had one patient, I remember during my fellowship, I was in geriatrics clinic and had a very well read patient who came in and was reading a New York Times article, I think in the well section at one point. Alex 16:45 That really rings true with my clinical experience. And I know I do primarily inpatient work.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 109

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Are there meaningful ways of assessing loneliness and social isolation in clinical settings and connecting patients with interventions? The Listening “EAR” approach that simplifies assessment of loneliness and social isolation in clinical settings, and other practical pointers.

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IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 99

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Today we have a star-studded lineup, including Lexy Torke of Indiana University, who discusses her RCT of a chaplaincy intervention for surrogates of patients in the ICU , published in JPSM and plenary presentation at AAHPM/HPNA. It is a screening? laughter] Eric: I feel like there are a lot of cool chaplaincy acronyms. Lexy: Great.

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IT Patient-Centered Families Family 99

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The more we can notice that, the more we can actually be present for that family and actually see how they’re experiencing it. ” That’s not a spiritual screen. The post The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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IT Families Family Physicals 137

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

We also explored several questions with them, including how to define trauma, its prevalence in older adults, the impact of past traumatic experiences, the potential triggers of trauma screening, and the application of trauma-informed principles in clinical practice. Alex 19:12 And what’s the clinical takeaway from that?

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IT Patient-Centered Individual Screening 67

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

So I actually was doing a grand rounds as my final presentation here at Yale for my fellowship on the role of music in host pice and palliative medicine. Eric 34:49 And Jenny, how are you planning to involve music once you’re done with fellowship in your clinical work? You might see me on the TV screens next year.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 97

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Our early studies were looking at things like, desire for death, and syndromal depression, and screening for depression and anxiety, and will to live. 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.

Patient-Centered 98

Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

MAY 29, 2025

I think if someone were to ask me what a tagline is from what I’ve learned in studying lucidity, I would say, like, assume consciousness present, which. And I think this just hasn’t made it into, like, our academic clinical training space. Andrea 10:35 Yes, they are. Which is a good, you know, in our. In our practice.

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Families Family IT Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

It’s that mixture of intimacy and vulnerability, of shared clinical experiences, that fosters a sense of belonging. We definitely draw on the sciences, on biomedical science, on clinical trials, on pharmaceutical design and all sorts of things like that. There’s something magical that happens in small group storytelling.

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IT Community Patients Families 107

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary In todays podcast we were delighted to be joined by the presenters of the top scientific abstracts for the Annual Assembly of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine ( AAHPM ) and the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Nurses Association ( HPNA ). I’m a PhD candidate at Yale School of Nursing.

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Consulting Community Patient-Centered Families 63

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

Now when I say variation, I’m not talking about small little clinically questionable variations. Ruth: I do have to also say that it’s important to remember that feeding tube use and hospital transfers for people with advanced dementia has no demonstrated clinical benefit. Joan: A lot of my work comes out of my clinical practice.

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Nurse Practitioner Hospital Families Family 60

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. The HIV clinics also served as primary care. Millions of lives are at stake.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Provider 94

GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

And I think that his research was informed by his clinical practice, his clinical practice was informed by his research. And we had the date, if it was present in the EHR, to provide that context for the clinician. What we ended up doing with this study was we used NLP to screen these 44,000 notes for 2,000 patients, 2,512.

Patient-Centered 84

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 84

GeriPal

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary There is a growing push to change how we define Alzheimer’s disease from what was historically a clinically defined syndrome to a newer biological definition based on the presence of positive amyloid biomarkers. So too systolic hypertension in elderly people, clinical trials. Alex: That’s right.

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IT Clinic Illness Hypertension 116

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Should we focus on something else, both from a clinical and a research perspective? But one of the things that I try to teach, because both Juliet and I have done a ton of teaching about this, is that if you follow these steps, that outcome sort of presents itself. So I’m just going to share on my screen.

Illness 98

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 98

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

So I thought… And I was doing this for the United States Preventive Services Task Force because we were looking at the evidence to what’s the benefit and harm of screening, and I had to look all over. So what that means is I take care of you just in my clinic, just in my hospital. ” Diane: Fantastic. Diane: Yeah.

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Patient-Centered IT Families Family 125

GeriPal

JULY 16, 2024

We talk about positive aspects of aging, cognitive screening, the line between legitimate concerns and ageism, ableism, advice for a geriatrician asked to comment on TV, frailty and physical disability, images in the press , historical situations including , and an upper age limit for the Presidency, among other issues. Louise 32:50 Right.

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Diagnosis Diagnose IT Physicals 141