GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Was there any mention about the impact that hearing loss has in communication or what we should do about it in clinical practice? And so often we get consulted by teams that say, “I have this older patient and they’re pretty isolated and I think they have dementia. I’m guessing not. So they’re left out.

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IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

For instance, a family meeting or an update or communication with families. I’ve worked in palliative care for years, and there’s some times where I’m in the family meeting, I’m facilitating the family meeting, and then I’m reporting out to the referring doctors, and I say, what happened?

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Screening IT Families Family 120

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. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Laurie Dornbrand has no relationships to disclose.

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Families Family Patient-Centered IT 112

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. But then recognizing that our relationships impact our health even outside the context of stress.

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IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 99

GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

We and our guests have noticed that in our clinical practices, patients and caregivers seem to be asking for such treatments more frequently. Daneila Lamas wrote about this issue in the New York Times this week -after we recorded – in her story, a family requested an herbal infusion for their dying mother via feeding tube.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 77

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Panelists Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin have no relationships to disclose. Have you had a family history of substance use disorder? Even if the cancer gets cured, they’re not going to become their buprenorphine prescriber, the palliative care consultant. And they ask questions like, have you used substances?

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136