GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

So that’s one, this patient-centered geriatric assessment and management approach. Number three, this specialized prepared environment that promotes safe mobility and cognitive stimulation and delirium prevention, so sort of environmental changes. Are they community dwelling? The most common criteria was obviously age.

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Hospital Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 101

GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

So, Dr. McPherson, as far as I can tell, she’s really the only person in our professional community who in any sort of serious public way said, folks we need to do something about this. Eric: But is that just something special about methadone and buprenorphine? So, there’s no big differences. Is that right?

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

However, at Mesa Family Physicians , we believe that preventive healthcare is the cornerstone of long-term wellness for our Mesa, Arizona community. Arizona’s climate and lifestyle present specific health considerations that our Mesa-based medical professionals are specially trained to address.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

In their communities? It was around helping communication, and really focused on our nursing manual, and particularly around these guidelines for assessing and managing symptoms. They’re mostly living at home and living their lives in the community.” With their regular providers? Eric: Oh, wow.

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GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

So in our trial, because of security reasons, we are required by Health Canada to store the substance in a special secure area in my office. And those of us who work in palliative care are more familiar with the 5ht3 receptor, which we use for nausea management. James, I think you got the song request for Alex. So 5ht2 was.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 109

GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

If they don’t, they know how to get to community resources. DorAnne 30:25 I also wanna make a shout out for pain and symptom management with social work and chaplains. So we totally forget that all of us are symptom managers as well. The collaboration is actually the center. It’s like the jewel of what we do.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Anne: Well, speaking of your kids, a very special, sometimes listener, chimed in named Ren Smith. Alex: And, it means pain management. Because this is not… Our traditional academic route of dissemination is focusing on communities that don’t have a lot of access to Geriatrics or Palliative care or learning opportunities.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So I make the point, they often say, “Oh, you have this special population,” like pediatrics, where it’s 10% or something. And because, it’s a little kid in a candy store, so many different choices for quote, unquote, “community oncologists,” and perhaps even for academic oncologists.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Alex 00:20 Today we’re delighted and honored to welcome Eduardo Bruera, who is one of the biggest symptom management gurus, if not the biggest symptom management guru in palliative medicine. Thank you for that gift to our community and to the patients. Eric 00:14 And Alex, this one’s been a long time in the making.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Eric: Alex, we have a super special today. We’ve got a hospice super special. Alex: We have a hospice super special day. Eric: We have a smorgasbord, if you will, of papers that got published recently around hospice, and that’s why we’re calling it a hospice super special. -@AlexSmithMD. Transcript.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

He spent a long time as hospice medical director and he founded a national model of care that many of our listeners will be familiar with, AIM, which stands for the Advanced Illness Management program, which has influenced CMS policy. They’re like, “Everyone wants to make every moment of our day special.”

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

primary palliative care interventions seem to fail, whereas specialized palliative care interventions have a relatively robust track record of success. 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.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Despite these substantial needs, specialized palliative care beyond hospice is rare in nursing homes. How to think about primary and specialized palliative care in this setting. And so I tried to get her actually to pain management, and I couldn’t. Pain management wouldn’t come to the facility, and she was bedbound.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

None of the changes that we saw in end-of-life care processes relied on specialist palliative care increases or resources, which is really important because seven of the 10 hospitals that participated were rural or community-based, which is where most Americans receive their care, and also where specialist palliative care is often most limited.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

My voice is nothing special. Our volunteers are starting to take over ownership of this program, so we’re kind of like building a team to help kind of maintain it, manage it, and make sure that everything’s on the up and up with it. I think that’s more palliative than me. Alex 09:00 Not true. Theresa 09:01 Oh, no.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

Usually I don’t put a lot of background on this podcast, but I got to … in November of 2022, Ava Kofman, along with ProPublica, published … well I won’t want to say great, published an article in The New Yorker that I think it was divisive in the hospice and palliative care community. Now it’s 70%. Who sees you?

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GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

This week we’re going on to episode two, which is for me one of the most special episodes we’ve done in GeriPal for a very, very long time. Eric: And in the end, we have a very special part where we actually get a tour of their gardens outside of the hospice unit. Alex: This is Alex Smith.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Today we’re going to be talking about narrative writing specifically for healthcare professionals. It feels special to me. This was something you were … You’re a grieving daughter and also trying to manage probably a lot of other things during the pandemic. So unlike academic journals and elsewhere.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Pain Manag Nurs. Naomi: Well, I have a special place of not being a doctor within this great group of people. 2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004. 2023.11.004. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38129210. Kleinman, A.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

We are also joined by LaVera Crawly, a physician turned chaplain, now VP of Spiritual Care at Common Spirit Health (and author of another of my favorite and most cited papers on palliative care in the African American Community ). It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions. link] Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

But before I became a nurse I had a long career at Procter & Gamble in brand management and I worked on the Covergirl and Max Factor business. Even with this whole discussion about diversity, even in our regular community, we are not actually making progress when you look at nationally weighted surveys. ” Bingo.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 101

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. So thinking about addressing trauma as part of our management of other symptoms can be really helpful or at least taking a trauma informed lens to our medical approach.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

She’s a geriatric nurse practitioner specializing in palliative care, and assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. It improves symptom management. I was like, how do you disseminate this knowledge out to these community nursing homes in rural Georgia so that people know about this?

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Nurse Practitioner Hospital Families Family 60

GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Leslie Wharton is a leader in the 26,000 member grassroots organization Elders Climate Action , which organizes older adults to create communities engaged in making a difference at local, state, and national levels. But Ruth, I was wondering too, and you invited us to ask each other questions, so my golly I’m going to do it.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Look also for a forthcoming article by Mike and Redwing in Journal of Pain and Symptom Management on poetry as a healing modality, to be published mid May (will add link when out). This has become a community of people all over the world who come together every week. When they come back, they share the poems they’ve written.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

One of the worst ways is you have a community of people who’ve paid into Social Security their whole life, paid into to support Medicare their whole life, and don’t live long enough to see the fruits of that. .” Alex: But the longer title’s Ethno-Geriatrics and Special Populations. Margot: Yes. Yeah, for sure.

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Mental Health IT Community Individual 124

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. But I think primary care clinicians, geriatricians, should be able to do at least the basic management and HIV care. In San Francisco, HIV care was more specialized in that.

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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. Eric 00:13 And Alex, we have a super special today, three different articles. Alex 00:18 Prognosis, super special today. Eric 25:08 Super special. This is Eric W id era.

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Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 108

GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

But at any age, like, as Emily said, it is so important to pay attention to nutrition and healthy eating because it’s not just about, oh, chronic disease prevention or even treatment and management. Now there’s evidence for some more specialized hormonal conditions. Go on, Anna. What are some of the others?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

That happened to me when reading “Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World.” He basically is talking about people who got promoted to senior management. Bob: And how they sucked at senior management. The things that made them really good salespeople, made them really bad senior managers. Well it helps you.

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IT Medical Student Medical Families 105

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

On today’s podcast Areej El-Jawahri, oncologist specializing in blood cancers at MGH, says that sexual health is one of the top if not the top issue among cancer survivors. Alex 00:06 We are delighted to welcome back Areej El-Jawahri, who’s an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who specializes in blood cancers.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. I didn’t know how to manage it. He created fee for service, special fee for depression. And I was terrified. Diane: Yeah.

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Patient-Centered IT Families Family 126

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. It included the patient family agenda setting checklist.

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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?

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back two very special guests who were with us early in the COVID pandemic, and really shown a light on what was happening for the rest of us who could see this giant wave coming, and were just thirsty for information and experiences from those people who were experiencing it early. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

And the thought of a huge number of our patients who had really come to rely on being able to do their visits from home or from a place that was close to home and getting medications that they’ve really come to rely on for symptom management was just really kind of terrifying for us and for them. It may have come to a care manager.

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