GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

My take home from this is that while the most preferred explanation for deprescribing statins and sedative-hypnotics is one focused on the risk of side effects, we also need to individualize it to the patient and the medication that they are taking. Maybe that’s where the individualizing it, the person that’s front of me.

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Specialization Medical Patient-Centered Provider 104

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.

Physicals 85

Physicals IT Hypertension Education 85

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Noelle Marie 01:24 I think it really speaks a lot to my own personal journey and I’m pretty sure a lot of trans and gender diverse individuals also resonate with and it really speaks about our transition, celebrating our authentic selves, how society views us and how we view ourselves when we stand in front of a mirror.

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Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 85

Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 29, 2022

These are intellectually interesting but often personally devastating to the patient and family involved. A patient must have the autonomy to choose whether in their individual situation, the potential benefits outweigh the potential harms. Medicine involves many extremely ethically challenging situations.

Family Physician 52

Family Physician Family Families Healthcare Professional 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

So Carmen and Katie developed an EMS Community Partnership program. They created a seamless link between this Community Partnership program and 911 calls for falls. Eric and I enjoyed talking with Carmen and Katie about this innovative and common sense approach to addressing falls in the community. Word of mouth spread rapidly.

Community 114

Community Transportation IT PCP 114

GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

Sarah Nouri, Hillary Lum, and LJ Van Scoy argue that diverse communities are asking for ACP. Sarah Nouri gives an example from her work in the LGBTQ+ community of a trans woman who was buried as a man because existing laws/rules did not protect her wishes. I would like to request the Friendship Train by Gladys Knight and the Pips.

Community 95

Community IT Patient-Centered Primary Care 95

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Feyron has centered her work in Black/African American faith communities and churches – a program she titled Alter. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Fayron Epps, who is associate professor and director of Community and Research Engagement at the School of Nursing at Emory. Why this focus? Karen: Thank you. Alex: Great.

Community 128

Community Family Families IT 128

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Often the work of the certified driving rehab specialist is to assess the older drivers goals, assess prognosis for driving, and help the family navigate discussions around driving cessation (hmmm…sounds like an approach to family meetings). Were those people self referring, or family members calling you asking? Eric: Yeah.

IT 102

IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The patient is sick and getting sicker, and refuses to let you talk with family or other members of her inner circle. We owe it to the patient to explore the reasons behind the “no,” commonly not wanting to be a burden to their family. Should you stop at “no?” AlexSmithMD Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

Families 97

Families Family Patient-Centered IT 97

GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

Psychedelics have been used by communities around the globe for hundreds of years (or more). One of the headlines there was about a family medicine doc, not to pick on family medicine, a doc, who was prescribing mail order psychedelics at really high volumes around the country. Alex: Psychedelics, promise and pitfalls.

Patient-Centered 91

Patient-Centered Community IT Medical 91

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. And so when you have that, that’s so good for the family. That’s so good for us.

IT 102

IT Family Families Clinic 102

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

And so, three years of seeing over and over people having really difficult end of life experiences in the ICU, not being able to advocate for themselves, a lot of trauma for their families, I just thought, we have to do better than this. In their communities? I was really passionate about helping the people and also their families.

Patient-Centered 122

Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

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.

IT 124

IT Screening Patient-Centered Community 124

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

And then from that, through community activists, ACT UP, legislators who felt that there needed to be something done, doctors within CDCR who cared passionately about the HIV population and others, all came together and we were able to eventually get funding for this 17-bed inpatient hospice. It’s by choice, just like in the community.

Family 132

Family Families IT Community 132

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. They didn’t feel connected to the people in their broader community.

IT 99

IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 99

GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

It is really difficult for the patients and the families. They do choose to rely more on their family and parents in ways that might feel like a step backwards and is yet, still developmentally appropriate and autonomous. The family dynamics are different though. Abby: Yeah. Andrea: I agree entirely, Eric.

IT 83

IT Family Families Illness 83

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. How should we care for unrepresented individuals in inpatient and outpatient settings? Why not use the older term unbefriended? Is that fair?

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 109

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Ishwaria 05:29 And that’s really how this field of professional well being, healthcare professional well being, clinician well being, has evolved, is that there is an important place in our overall professional well being for personal resilience and our individual coping strategies, recovery methods from day to day.

IT 110

IT Healthcare Healthcare Professional Patient-Centered 110

GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

Prognosis communication and the subtle ways we may communicate it without intention. Community-based palliative care networks . And I believe it needs the community. Raj: So in Kerala, because it started with the involvement of laypeople, we included the community in care because the existing system had no space for this.

Community 115

Community IT Relationship Healthcare 115

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Eric: I do not want my family to listen to my podcasts. So, I generally don’t listen to the podcast afterwards, nor force them on my family. So, I’m super proud of being able to reach out to people in rural communities. We shouldn’t be mandating individuals, this should be an optional thing for individuals.

IT 126

IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 126

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Summary Transcript CME Summary It is a battle royale on this weeks GeriPal podcast. But watch out!

Telehealth 105

Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

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”? Family member, and with some chagrin- Eric: Powerful nudge. What are you seeing?”

IT 137

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BMJ

MAY 10, 2022

Introductory article to İkİIşik H, Sezerol MA, Taşçı Y, et alCOVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and related factors among primary healthcare workers in a district of Istanbul: a cross-sectional study from TurkeyFamily Medicine and Community Health 2022;10:e001430. Statistical significance level was accepted as p<0.05.

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Vaccination Healthcare Professional Healthcare Primary Care 40

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

And that’s what gets me excited for our future, is being able to interact with those individuals and attract them early and keep them hooked, I think is one of Jerry and my story. Eric: Yeah, I love just creating the community of people who are passionate about that. And I love this community. ” I did love that line.

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Board-Certified IT Community Medical Student 91

BMJ

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Besides the risks to an individual, there are also population-level harms from normalizing certain harmful behaviors (e.g., It is imperative for policy makers, school administrators, healthcare professionals, and parents to become aware of these emerging dangers and take appropriate steps, like what has been done for the opioid epidemic.

Medical 40

Medical Holistic Care Healthcare Healthcare Professional 40

GeriPal

MAY 26, 2022

They argue that the current guidelines, which prioritize immunocompromised people and unvaccinated older people on the same level, should be re-done to prioritize the immunocompromised first, and additionally move up older vaccinated individuals or vaccinated persons with comorbidities. What’s wrong with that? Why not prioritize them?

Vaccination 87

Vaccination IT Individual Healthcare 87

GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live.

Patient-Centered 115

Patient-Centered Illness Healthcare IT 115

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).

Healthcare 100

Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

I also heard that if you look at all individuals in the US, about 4% of individuals are taking one of the gabapentinoids, 10% over 65. One in five individuals with dementia and behavioral problems are on valproic acid and the evidence base for valproic acid for dementia behavioral issues is really zero. Is that right?

Patient-Centered 96

Patient-Centered IT Healthcare Medical 96

GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

And yet, disenrollment from hospice, either due to patient/family revoking the benefit or stabilization of illness (extended prognosis) is remarkably high for people with dementia among some hospices. It’s really a pretty traumatic experience for a lot of patients and families. And I had a blast playing Take the Money and Run!

Family 106

Family Families IT Patients 106

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

2021 Association of Hospice Profit Status With Family Caregivers’ Reported Care Experiences. I think some individuals thought there was cherry-picking of stories that made it seem like hospice is this bad thing, that it’s taking advantage of vulnerable individuals and it didn’t talk enough about the good things that hospice does.

IT 113

IT Provider Patients Family 113

GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

And back then, mostly we took care of each other in the cells and it was like a family thing. AIDs didn’t know any color or creed, so it was a family thing, we all took care of each other. I am there with individuals who are dying. And it’s a family environment, it becomes like a big family here.

IT 97

IT Family Families Board-Certified 97

GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

Alex: And Sammy Winemaker, who’s a palliative care physician and Associate Clinical Professor at McMaster University in the Department of Family Medicine, Division of Palliative Care. It’s just normal kind of talking to people because you are scuppered if you can’t connect with the patients and families in their home.

Education 127

Education IT Illness Healthcare 127

GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Many were community hospitals. We did another nudging trial where the deep default was for default palliative care consultations for high risk patients, and it significantly increased individuals who were receiving palliative care. We tested two different nudges individually and then we combined them. I highly encourage you.

Patient-Centered 116

Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 116

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

We covered some of our questions on the podcast, others you can ponder on your own or in your journal clubs, including: Maries tele/video palliative care intervention was tailored/refined with the help of a community advisory board. Eric 04:27 Yeah, I gotta ask about the community advisor. So I don’t want my Marin community to.

Consulting 63

Consulting Community Patient-Centered Family 63

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Eric: So we’re going to be talking about dementia and considerations around surgery for individuals with dementia. And then, the family, her kids got together, my wife and her brother and sister got together and said, wait a minute, mom did not want this, right? Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Samir. Samir: Thanks, Alex and Eric.

Patient-Centered 101

Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

We’ve invited two death doulas, Jane Euler and John Loughnane (who is also a family doc and palliative care physician), to talk about the role of a doula at the end of life. And then second, I was someone who was a Parrot Head for years and years and it was just amazing how the community came together. How do you see the light?

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