GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

I mean, to me, the Buddhist concept that there are multiple forms of suffering, like there’s the suffering that’s due to pain and physical symptoms. I think there is a difference, too, between physical suffering, and we have to also give that its dignity. I think there is definitely a place, especially physical.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Alex and I did a study on over 2000 community dwelling older adults, and we found that over two thirds of people had geriatric conditions, these geriatric syndromes, and palliative care related problems like pain, difficulty climbing stairs. One of my good friends, Jerome Kim, is a community oncologist. So John, Mazie, did I miss any?

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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.

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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.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

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. I always knew that I wanted to get into healthcare, to use healthcare as a springboard for social change in our communities.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

First of all, as I understand the Carter decision, two of the things you’re supposed to have in order to be a candidate for MAID are enduring intolerable physical psychological suffering that can’t be addressed under conditions you consider acceptable. Eric: And now is it including mental health, psychiatric disorders?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Kate and Ashwin talked about their research on the prevalence of lifetime trauma and its association with physical and psychosocial health among adults at the end of life. Certainly a lot of communities we’re thinking about LA right now and the collective trauma that they’re experiencing from the fires.

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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 ). I wonder if you could tell that story for our listeners. George Soros had the project on Death in America.

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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. So it’s just every single part of our life is affected and mental health issues. And then access to those.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

And in our reporting center, we tracked physical assaults, verbal harassment. My mom, who’s half chinese and half hawaiian, helped rally the asian american community in Michigan after the Vincent Chin incident. And one of the things that we’ll talk about today is how did the community respond? Alex 15:37 Yeah.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

They had access to the cancer center resources, but they didn’t have access to sort of regular contact with palliative care mental health professionals. And the entire community of palliative care said yes, not a palliative care study. It’s not just about physical symptom management. I’m so sorry.

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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. It is completely disconnected, like a scatter plot, between things like rates of substance use and mental health.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Too many people do because it’s really hard to keep their loved ones at home for the cost, the enormous financial, mental and physical strain for the family. So if you think about dementia, it’s on the intersection of aging stigma and mental health stigma. Number one, number of days you are in the community.

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GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

And then maybe KN95s, FFP2s and KF94s, if you wear them, at least in physical science studies, if you’re inside in a crowded where Warrior stadium or something, that should provide you some self protection. Part of our recovery is mental health and seeing each other’s faces. And it is part of our being together.

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