GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

[link] Promising Practice Recognition PEACH was named a Promising Practice in equity-oriented palliative care as part of a national initiative funded by Health Canada, operated by Healthcare Excellence Canada & the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary In the early 1990’s, California Medical Facility (CMF) created one of the nation’s first licensed hospice units inside a prison. Alex: We are in the California Medical Facility and we will ask our guest about that. I’ve known Michele a long time, since the Joint Medical Program. Michele: Yep.

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Family Families IT Community 132

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). Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Devika Nair, who is a nephrologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee Valley VA Healthcare System.

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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

We have two new FDA-approved medications that reduce that amyloid buildup and modestly slow down the progression of the disease. He is associate professor at the University of Wisconsin and medical director of their Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. So I get all the referrals from my great colleagues in primary care.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Alex: And we’re so delighted to welcome to the GeriPal Podcast Marian Grant, who is a palliative care nurse practitioner and marketing consultant, and she is at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. We know how to communicate with patients, but communicating with the public is a different beast.

Illness 101

Illness Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 101

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

A friend of GeriPal, and prior guest, Guy Micco commented today that we need an RCT for chaplaincy is like the idea that the humanities need to justify their value in medical training: “It’s like being told to measure the taste of orange juice with a ruler.” I wonder if you could tell that story for our listeners. Where are my colleagues?”

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IT Patient-Centered Family Families 99

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

As a springboard for this conversation we discuss new prognostic models developed to predict (simultaneously) mortality, disability, and mobility impairment ( Alex Lee first author, JAGS ) and mortality for people with dementia residing in the community ( James Deardorff first author, JAMA IM ). . ” I love The Onion. James: Yeah.

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IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

So we looked at hospital referral regions, and we looked at high- and low- intensity regions. Ruth: Then we saw at the other extreme where people thought that feeding tubes prolonged life, improved quality of life, made it easier to give medications, which it does do, and that they should be used. That was the middle world.

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Nurse Practitioner Hospital Family Families 60

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Alex: We’ve got a lot to talk about…what states are doing and cities are doing to support older adults in the community. But, what you need is a community-based game there. The long-term care is being actually provided in the community at a much higher rate than what the formal system provides. You go back home.

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. And the entire community of palliative care said yes, not a palliative care study. We won’t kill your patient. I’m so sorry.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

We sort of set physicians, or I would say we set medical providers up a little bit when we say, you really should us ask, but then we don’t give them the resources or the sense of training about what to do next. One of the things that I do think a lot of men really actually have enjoyed is non medication strategies.

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

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. We were agnostic on the timing.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 79

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

Alex: We are delighted to welcome Joe Rotella, who’s the Chief Medical Officer of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. And I think that it was percolating in a lot of the palliative care community. So now that the emergency response has ended, what’s to be done? Joe, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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