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. So those types of relationships, clergy, non family members, we talk about, I think cohabitating unmarried couples. Is that fair? Tim 11:59 Yeah.

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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. So we’re going to be today talking about serious illness palliative care in the homelessness population.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. This specific study , published in JAMA Internal Medicine, was conducted in 17 ICUs in North Carolina. Many were community hospitals.

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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.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

He uses comics and other artwork to share his experiences in palliative care and educate others about topics like empathy and communication skills. Times , The BMJ , and Annals of Internal Medicine. . I was just thinking back to yesterday, we were in a family meeting. His work has been published in places like the L.A.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

Well, todays guests love music at least as much if not more than me, and they each make a strong case for music as medicine. Jenny Chen is a palliative care fellow at Yale who regularly sings for her seriously ill patients. And we got all into his family stuff and how he’d been suffering with cancer and his goal.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

But at the end of the day, I actually view medicine more as an applied science. So we take that science and we apply it to something that’s very messy and chaotic, like a human being or a community or a population. And it was born when I was a medical resident at UCSF Internal Medicine. Emily 06:27 Yes.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

On this podcast we talk about her paper in JAMA Internal Medicine which studied three hospitals that varied in the intensity of care they provided to seriously ill patients. And so I specifically chose hospitals that were at different intensities of care based on the Dartmouth Atlas around serious illness and end-of-life care.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. It was this slow build, I would say.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? This is not why I went into emergency medicine. I went into emergency medicine to act. And so we use that. We use Vital Talk.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

You can find her illustrations online at her Twitter account, particularly those about the anti-asian hate study that we did recently and had a podcast about, as well as in annals of internal medicine. They had triple diagnoses, often life threatening illness, but also mental illness and usually some kind of addiction.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Certainly a lot of communities we’re thinking about LA right now and the collective trauma that they’re experiencing from the fires. Eric 30:52 And this also reminds me of Dani Chammas article she just published in Annals of Internal Medicine. Annals of Internal Medicine. Trauma informed care approach.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

The PPS is one of the most widely used prognostic tools for seriously ill patients, but the prognostic estimates given by the PPS are based on data that is well over a decade old. Next, we talk with James Deardorff about whether we can accurately predict nursing home level of care in community-dwelling older adults with dementia.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Poetry helps us grapple with our own experiences of illness. Redwing: So I grew up in a pretty intellectual family, but my brother and sister were six and 10 years older than me, and they were always feeding me literature and poetry. This has become a community of people all over the world who come together every week.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Today we are delighted to welcome Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, and Danny Scerpella, who conducted a pragmatic trial of advance care planning (ACP) in primary care practices; and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who wrote an accompanying commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine. I’m hearing family and caregivers. Eric 02:32 Great, Alex.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

For example, is reluctance to take on more responsibility at work or relocate because you feel inadequate or is it because of genuine concern about the impact on your family? Can I ask, how did it change you, how you think about talking to folks with serious illness? money, power, influence) and greater value on connection and meaning.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Ill end this intro with a quote from Deb Grady in an editors commentary to our thought piece in JAMA Internal Medicine about this topic: Voice technology that creates a searchable database of patients every encounter with a health care professional? You basically don’t even ask the family, you just stop the bleeding.

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GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

NIH study about long COVID published the day before in Annals of Internal Medicine. Eric: All right, before we start talking about COVID in older adults and those with serious illness, do you have a song request for Alex? Stat news article about variants/COVID becoming more predictable. Our World in Data COVID graphs.

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