GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

My voice is nothing special. And we got all into his family stuff and how he’d been suffering with cancer and his goal. Just encourage patients and families to bring music into their healthcare experience. We introduce it to families and patients and explain how it works and show them. Alex 09:00 Not true.

IT 96

IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 96

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So my family is from Maui and were impacted by the wildfires, so I really appreciate this. Alex: How is your family doing? My family’s also from Maui. And her dad’s family, the Makekaus family, which is based in Lahaina, and we actually visited their grave sites there, when we were there a few years ago.

Patient-Centered 129

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

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. Eric: Alex, we have a super special today. We’ve got a hospice super special. Alex: We have a hospice super special day.

Family 106

Family Families IT Patients 106

GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

There was no conversation with the patient or the family about this. And the medical approach to these patients was very limited, but people were treated in their homes, with their families, with enormous compassion and care, which is what was really the antithesis. And that did not seem right to me. And the focus was on their comfort.

Illness 109

Illness IT Family Families 109

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. This is my early father’s day gift from the family. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Jennifer. Jennifer: Thanks. Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast, Areej. Eric: Yeah.

Illness 110

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Alex 02:20 (singing) “ Well, you wake up in the morning you hear the church bell ring and they march you to the table to see the same old thing ain’t no food upon the table ain’t no pork up in the pan but you better not complain boy, you get in trouble with a man let the midnight special shine a light on me.

Illness 133

Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 133

GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

Complicated grief? And, you know, I really leaned in from my perspective as a primary care geriatrician to hearing from what my patients and their family caregivers are asking me for and asking me about, and they’re asking me about how they can prepare. And that family was not necessarily a trusted network. Depression?

Community 95

Community IT Patient-Centered Primary Care 95

GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

We’ve invited some very special guests to talk about the lower urinary tract – Christine Kistler and Scott Bauer. . Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Chrissy Kistler, who is a geriatrician researcher in the Department of Family Medicine and Vision of Geriatrics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Management 122

Management IT Medical Patient-Centered 122

GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Today we’re going to be talking about narrative writing specifically for healthcare professionals. Then in the OpenNotes work that I do, I was hired to take something complicated like transparency and patients having access to their full records in medicine, and then making that something that the lay public understood.

IT 95

IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 95

GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

We talk with Kate about how despite how far we’ve come in palliative care research, we still don’t have answers to some fundamental questions, such as: Who should get specialized palliative care? But definitely always had the bug to be the one to jump into the family meetings in the ICU, lead them. That gets really complicated as well.

Consulting 99

Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis Referral 99

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

I am part of some other work in the ICU world looking at time-limited trials and trying to better define what those are, how we talk about them, how we talk about them with patients and families. It’s complicated because right now there’s no mechanism other than cost avoidance. Why another study?

Consulting 115

Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

And also it’s a little bit of an insult to one’s identity to feel like if this special person in your life can be forgotten, then you can be forgotten. But our living memory home is a way to both maintain that connection, because that’s the fear is that you’re going to lose this connection to this very special person.

IT 100

IT Specialization Complication Relationship 100

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

primary palliative care interventions seem to fail, whereas specialized palliative care interventions have a relatively robust track record of success. And it’s very traumatic obviously for the family and all of that and the team really. Yeah, that’s a more complicated story. But yeah, it’s complicated.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 15:13 This is really complicated. She entertained her family. Thanksgiving’s coming up, you’re having your family, Christmas coming up. You’re going to go traveling to Hawaii with your family, and, you know, you want to die in January. That makes it really special for them and for me.

Patients 98

Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Eric 00:13 And Alex, we have a super special today, three different articles. Alex 00:18 Prognosis, super special today. And so we know that the decision to enter a nursing home is incredibly challenging for families, especially because it often comes with thoughts that they’re, like, abandoning their loved one, really.

Family 106

Family Families Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

Alex 00:07 We are delighted to welcome Peter Selwyn, who is a family medicine and palliative medicine doctor and chairman of the Department of Family and Social Medicine and director of the Palliative Care Program at Montefiore E instein and author of Surviving the the Personal Journey of an AIDS Doctor. Who are our guests?

Primary Care 94

Primary Care IT Provider Clinic 94

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.

Illness 130

Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

And so this is our way of supporting non English speaking families in advanced care planning. And I have a long interest in identifying family caregivers and supporting them in care delivery. And so this was really, in my view, a perfect window for reinforcing the role of family in primary care. Eric 02:32 Great, Alex.

Primary Care 79

Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 79

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The pneumonia could get treated, but I think geriatricians, actually, were well aware of iatrogenic complications of care and quality gaps, even well before the IOM reports of the late 1990s and the like. In our larger studies, before the study that Tacara helped lead, we never required family members to be present, or do work.

Hospital 115

Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115

GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

I think when professionals act in the interests of their patients, they are acting under their professional duty to patients, period. There’s nothing special about it. I don’t think it needs a special term particularly. Robert: Professional relationship. We’re going to make this a slow code.

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Provider Medical Hospital Patient-Centered 19