GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

The beautiful thing about it, it’s more than just having a career development award; it’s a community of aging researchers. One of the highlights really is the networking and the community that it fosters and highlighted, in some ways, by the meeting, which of course you often lead the sing along at. I agree with you.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Together, our guests explore and unpack how the criminalization and racialization of substance use builds to the present-day opioid epidemic and shapes inequities in care. Identify realistic solutions to drug policy reform that promote health equity among marginalized communities living in the United States.

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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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PEMBlog

JUNE 2, 2025

In the case presented, the patients blood pressure was significantly elevated, and she exhibited symptoms indicative of end-organ involvement, including altered mental status, headache, and nausea.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

Second, as we discussed in last week’s podcast , older adults, particularly those in nursing homes, were far more likely to die than younger individuals. We lump everybody who’s 65 and older together, and then we don’t look at the individual characteristics of that person, so we fall into these patterns based on racial premises.

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Patients 92

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. Alex: Yeah.

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Families IT Family Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. 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. those experiencing homelessness).

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

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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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

My favorite line from Emily’s paper: “Geriatric assent has not been widely adopted in clinical care, but bioethicists should advocate for this, as adoption of partial-involvement strategies can prolong the period in which individuals are (appropriately) engaged in decisions about their health care.” This is Eric Widera.

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Families Family Patient-Centered IT 98

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 77

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. Eric: I think about it as the first one to address individuals’ curative therapy. Welcome, Corita and Kate and Tom.

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Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

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. And trying to translate this very complicated process into a universal means of acting at a complex time in life is really, really difficult.

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Illness IT Healthcare Patient-Centered 73

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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Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 132

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 126

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

So there’s this, what is suffering to the individual, and is there some threshold that we could say, “This is real suffering,” or “This is the suffering we talk about in geriatrics or palliative care”? Suffering might not even be in their lexicon. Most people don’t use the jargon of suffering.

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IT Families Family Physicals 137

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.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 96

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: And let me just clarify.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

You know your patients’ evolving story as well as their family, friends, coworkers, and the peculiarities of their local community. Over time, communication improves. All of that is especially important for disadvantaged individuals with more risk factors, more chronic diseases, more medications, and lower health literacy.

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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. This is a particularly interesting topic because we know that individuals with dementia have a high rate of entering nursing home. So you’re kind of the guest host today.

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Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 106

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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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. And is it at all individualized to the patient? It’s a lot.

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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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PEMBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

We will review the clinical presentation, diagnostic strategies, management protocols, infection control practices, and vaccination updates. Learning Objectives Understand the clinical progression of pertussis through its three distinct stages and identify key symptoms, including age-specific presentations in infants and older children.

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