GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Assisted Living Communities (no longer preferable to call them Assisted Living Facilities, as we learned on the podcast) are…what, exactly? If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. . If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. .

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Community IT Mental Health Medical 97

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

If you want to do a deeper dive into some of the articles we discuss, take a look at the following: An awesome JAMA review by Sarah on fall risk assessment and prevention in community-dwelling adults. Sarah 03:57 Yeah, it’s a pretty big problem for older adults, I’d say in community dwellers. It’s one out of two.

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Our guests today present an important rejoinder to the argument that we should refocus away from advance care planning (ACP). Sarah Nouri, Hillary Lum, and LJ Van Scoy argue that diverse communities are asking for ACP. Complicated grief? Did the caregiver feel heard and understood? Did they have PTSD?

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Community IT Patient-Centered Primary Care 96

GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

How HHS and ASPE solicit input from clinicians, community leaders, and older adults and how much it impacts policy decisions (spoiler alert: this involvement is CRUCIAL). There’s a team now with them behind them making sure that they stay safe and held in our communities. How to make your voice heard and get involved.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary Cannabis is complicated. Eloise 10:29 Yeah, I think what we saw in California was, prior to legalization, there was curiosity, but also a lot of their healthcare professionals didn’t know enough about it, so they didn’t discuss it with them. Is that your feeling, too?

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Medical IT Patient-Centered Healthcare 100

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

But then once it was open, started seeing a lot of other populations: not just our own hospital population, but a lot more just community members calling with concerns about driving. If they’re in a major car crash, they’re going to have more long-term complications probably than a 20-year-old would. Eric: Yeah. Absolutely.

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Families IT Family Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

I was in clinic the other day working with a trainee, and we saw a few patients together, and they happened to be very healthy, community dwelling, older adults, quite active. You go into this community, perform this study, you leave. Eric: And it’s even more complicated, right? So I want to share a little anecdote.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Alex and I did a study on over 2000 community dwelling older adults, and we found that over two thirds of people had geriatric conditions, these geriatric syndromes, and palliative care related problems like pain, difficulty climbing stairs. One of my good friends, Jerome Kim, is a community oncologist. Throw it in the trash.”

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. The social determinants of health and what community well being was a big part of. I always knew that I wanted to get into healthcare, to use healthcare as a springboard for social change in our communities. Who, his name was Terry.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 102

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 ). Who would/should be on that board? Eric 00:42 Great.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

In addition to being a palliative and hospice RN, she is the Executive Director for Goodwin Hospice , a large non-profit hospice that added end-of-life doula care to their services in collaboration with Jane and John’s doula organization, Present for You. That was really the theme song of how the community came together. John: Yeah.

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Provider Illness IT Healthcare 119

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

So Tammie developed something called EPIC for Emergency medicine, which is a curriculum that was one of the first ways that I think palliative care got spread in our community. We adapted a small group of us, Vital Talk for emergency medicine, which is communication skills training using simulation. But yeah, it’s complicated.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 78

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

And several times now, I read the notes and it’s just that someone has copied the contact information for someone into that note, but no one has actually contacted them or confirmed that they would want that person present. So I do think that probably is step one is just asking, which I think is what we proposed.

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Families Family Patient-Centered IT 98

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. Relationships are usually more complicated. You emailed me about doing a podcast on music and medicine. I’m wondering, why did you think it was a good idea to do this podcast?

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Although, certainly when you start facing complications of serious illness, it is increasingly important to engage as individuals and conversations about goals, values, and preferences. So it’s an example of something that can start outside of the healthcare system and move its way in. Rebecca: I think I’ll also add too.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Well, as a kick off to this year’s first in-person State of the Science plenary, held in conjunction with the closing Saturday session of the AAHPM/HPNA Annual Assembly, 3 randomized clinical trials were presented. And when I presented it to the transplant team, they said, “This is interesting, but we don’t need that.

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Consulting Patient-Centered Patients IT 116

GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

But one of the things I’m really interested in is people have agency and autonomy, so we can present them with the scenarios of best case, worst case, and they will always choose what’s most important to them. But really how are we talking about that as a team? And oh, guess what? And so I don’t feel pressured.

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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. The post The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Of course, there’s psychedelics.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

We need this type of push to make us feel that we are part of a community and we are part of a movement and things are changing because we are around. Thank you for that gift to our community and to the patients. We hope that the creators of the mini mental status exam are listening. The mini mental was the beginning of our work.

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Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 134

GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

And for a few reasons, which I’m sure we’ll get into, I think it’s probably most effective upstream of the acute care setting, more in the nursing home setting or for patients who are not presenting in the hospital or emergency department setting. Eric: That’s a complicated form then. I want designation.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 127

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

So we’re going to be talking about this complicated topic that a lot of people have differing opinions to and potentially very strong opinions, medical aid in dying. One thing I would like to add here is both Sonu and Leonie presented this as something that lacks boundaries. Eric: Bill. Bill: Yeah. Eric: Thank you Bill.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

So, for the two studies, I’ll mention, we use data from the precipitating events project at Yale, which is Tom Gill’s amazing cohort, where they followed a cohort of initially non-disabled community dwell and older adults with monthly measures of function. I think it’s really, really complicated. Alex: Bye everybody.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 21, 2024

The Attorney General, after considering HHS’ recommendations, “concludes that there is, at present, substantial evidence that marijuana does not warrant control under schedule I.” The Attorney General also released DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel (“OLC”) opinions providing the rationale and support for the NPRM. NPRM at 44,619. NPRM at 44,607.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

That was the lesson I learned from reading a new book edited by Matt Loscalzo along with Marshall Forstein called “ Loss and Grief: Personal Stories of Doctors and Other Healthcare Professionals ”. These debriefings create a safe outlet for health care professionals to talk about the feelings resulting from their work.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

So it felt like it was being part of this huge kind of change in the whole environment and the whole experience of that community. And, you know, I’ve seen that some primary care providers, there’s still so much stigma that they don’t feel comfortable or they feel like that managing HIV is somehow too complicated.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Provider 96

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Next, we talk with James Deardorff about whether we can accurately predict nursing home level of care in community-dwelling older adults with dementia. So snaps to Ricky, but he presented this case to us of a person who had had a heart operation.

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Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 108

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

The reason I chose this song is because I’m currently working on bringing advanced care planning sessions to the Latino community. In our planning sessions, one of the biggest barriers to advanced care planning in this community is just talking about death. The intervention itself is very straightforward.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Areej 03:50 So at the state of the science, I was actually presenting a study that was focused on addressing sexual health concerns in transplant survivors, and I actually told the story of the state of the science for those of you who were there. The breast cancer community seems to have coalesced around hyaluronic acid formulations.

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 131

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

If you are interested in learning more and meeting a community of folks interested in hospital-at-home, check out the hospital-at-home user group at hahusersgroup.org or some of these publications: Hospital-Level Care at Home for Acutely Ill Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial. How is it financed and what comes next? Annals of Int Med.

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