GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

And really, the best that had ever been looked at, especially in our population and sort of a cancer serious illness population. 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. Landmark study.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

We also talk about the importance of a proactive approach to involving speech-language pathologists in the care of individuals early on with neurodegenerative diseases like dementia and ALS. So as you mentioned, dementia, there’s some research that show about 86% or 93% of those individuals will get that. Raele: Yes, of course.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 23, 2025

As a family physician, my days are filled with caring for individuals and families across the lifespan and in multiple healthcare settings. These forces are not just impacting individual choices; they are eroding the very foundation of our collective health , as well as trust in career scientists, institutions, and the scientific process.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

Should we use Ozempic (if we can find it) in patients with serious illness, which often results in undesirable and profound weight loss? Alex Lee: And I think there’s a dearth of information about what proportion of nursing home residents have diabetes. Listen in to learn more! Overwhelming people with just a lot of data is big.

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GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

We’ll discuss three recent clinical trials involving patients with serious illness, joined by our guests James Downar , Ali John Zarrabi , and Margaret Ross. We’re going to be talking about new research in psilocybin in serious illness. Margaret 22:45 So the eligibility was that they had to have a life threatening illness.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Eric 01:04 So we’re going to be talking about transgender health in older adults and those with serious illness. To note that I am an individual who goes through this world. I face a lot of different stressors and challenges similar to other individuals, but I also have my own unique experiences. Noelle Marie 01:15 I do.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Understanding factors that contribute to secondary infection rates (SIR) can define changing trends and inform public health policies. We used logistic regression to investigate individual- and household-level characteristics associated with SARS-CoV-2 transmission. Variant was ascertained through whole genome sequencing.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Thats my main take-home point after learning from our three guests today when talking about trauma-informed care, an approach that highlights key principles including safety, trustworthiness, peer support, collaboration, empowerment, and cultural sensitivity. Eric 00:15 And we have three guests to help us talk about trauma informed care.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. In their communities? The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. With their regular providers?

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

Two of our guests today, Stacy Fischer and Brian Anderson, are involved in large multicenter trials of psychedelics for patients with advanced cancer (Fischer) or life-limiting illness (Anderson). Psychedelics have been used by communities around the globe for hundreds of years (or more). And yet there are reasons for caution.

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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.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Not the most common circumstances that people with serious illness face where attention and understanding of what my goals and values are. ” Very specific, rare circumstance.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

We discuss the principles of harm reduction, social determinants of health, and trauma informed care. 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.

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The Physicians Foundation

MAY 20, 2025

At a time when chronic diseases remain the number one cause of illness, disability and death nationwide, it is critical for physicians to have the tools needed to support the collective health of individuals across the United States. For more information, visit www.physiciansfoundation.org.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

My favorite line from Emily’s paper: “Geriatric assent has not been widely adopted in clinical care, but bioethicists should advocate for this, as adoption of partial-involvement strategies can prolong the period in which individuals are (appropriately) engaged in decisions about their health care.” This is Eric Widera. Eric: Lynn or Anne?

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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? And that can really inform what your own institutional policy is.

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GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

There’s all this stuff that we’re supposed to be doing at that stage of life and then you add the complexity of the serious illness. If there’s a serious illness, all of a sudden, you’re in this place where now you’re struggling between this growing independence and also then this dependence that you may have.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Love to talk about also in the serious illness population. But then once it was open, started seeing a lot of other populations: not just our own hospital population, but a lot more just community members calling with concerns about driving. That’s where it really gets to this individual risks and balances, individual situation.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

GeriPal post on “fast food” style palliative care in chronic critical illness. So at least in my oncology community, I really didn’t have anyone guiding or supporting or mentoring me. Areej: So when I was in college, I had a close friend who had a serious illness and actually died as a result of cancer. Transcript.

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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. Many were community hospitals. Participants were critically ill and intubated. What is sludge? Eric 01:01 So we got a good topic today.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

all of whom focus their efforts on educating the general public about living and dying with a serious illness. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. He was also the one who we have to thank for suggesting this podcast!

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

To be eligible in Canada patients must have a “ grievous and irremediable ” condition, including disability ; they do not have to have a terminal illness with a prognosis of less than 6 months. A planned expansion of MAID to include people with mental illness was placed on hold until March 2024. So less than six months to live.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Ann: Well, I think teamwork is key in this space and I am a big baseball fan, big Red Sox fan, which is not a good thing to be right now, but I really think it’s indicative of how we should all be working together on this team to help our seriously ill patients. Ann: No, he was very excited. And oh, guess what?

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Then listen to these prior podcasts with Sean Morrison and Rebecca Sudore about this issue, and we recently discussed differences between Advance Care Planning and Serious Illness Communication with Juliet Jacobsen and Rachelle Bernacki. . Where does POLST fit in with this debate? This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Eric: So we’re going to be talking about dementia and considerations around surgery for individuals with dementia. Eric: And what do we know about the outcomes of individuals getting these procedures, especially those with cognitive issues and dementia. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Samir. Samir: Thanks, Alex and Eric.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

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. That was really the theme song of how the community came together. He looked very ill. It sets space between us and the individuals we’re trying to take care of. How do you see the light?

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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. And then we incorporated that information into the consultation process. Was it Sarah? Eric 04:37 Shena.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

We really spent a lot of time helping the clinicians see that a patient’s illness, understanding and prognostic awareness was just as important as their pain scale, their pain score. The patient refuses to ever talk about the fact that this illness could take their life. What do we do with that? So it matters.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Today we talk with experts Janet Ho, Sach Kale, and Julie Childers about opioid use disorder and serious illness. Eric 00:51 So we’re gonna be talking about caring for people with serious illness and substance abuse. Who has a song request for Alex before we talk about substance use disorder and serious illness?

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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

OCTOBER 19, 2023

And we have Scott Halpern, who is Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy and Director of the Palliative and Advanced Illness Research Center or Payer Center at the University of Pennsylvania. So I do think it’s useful to have that additional information. Alex: National POLST Collaborative. Good to know.

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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? Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it.

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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. Eric: Great. Now it’s 70%.

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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. And Covid was just.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Comprehensive Primary Care for Michigan Communities What sets this clinic apart is its comprehensive approach to primary care. Whether you need a routine physical, vaccination, or management of a chronic illness, this clinic has you covered with a focus on holistic and individualized care.

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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. Melissa: The other scenario that exists is just disenrollment because an individual is hospitalized. But we were pleasantly surprised.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The illness narratives suffering, healing, and the human condition. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Tell us more about what you mean,” because they give us beautiful information from that. Pain Manag Nurs.

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