GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

Anna Pleet is an internal medicine resident at Allegheny Health Network who has a collection of amazing YouTube videos on aging and the Mediterranean diet. Elizabeth Eckstrom is a geriatrician, professor of medicine at OHSU, and author of a new book, the Gift of Aging. Who do we have with us on this podcast? Great to be here.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

Lingsheng (and I) recently published studies on this in JAMA Internal Medicine , and JAGS. Ongoing reports from patients about anti-Asian hate experiences Should clinicians screen for Anti-Asian hate? And in our reporting center, we tracked physical assaults, verbal harassment.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Poetry puts us in our patient’s shoes. Poetry holds us in that liminal space so many of our patients are in. Alex: We also have Mike Rabow, who is director of palliative care at the Cancer Center at UCSF. Isn’t that what we always work with, with patients, with our colleagues, with ourselves? Redwing: Thank you.

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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

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 dementia patients or patients with dementia.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

That happened to me when reading “Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World.” Alex: This was the National Palliative Care Research Center’s Annual Foley retreat for investigators, researchers. Summary Transcript Summary Sometimes you read a book and get a flash of insight – that “ah ha!” Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Care Ecosystem.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

Until recently, the only treatment was growth hormone therapy to help patients stay leaner and grow taller, but it didn’t address appetite. This breakthrough for these patients comes as other drugs are revolutionizing how doctors treat obesity, which affects more than 40% of American adults. Kennedy Jr.

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