GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Often the work of the certified driving rehab specialist is to assess the older drivers goals, assess prognosis for driving, and help the family navigate discussions around driving cessation (hmmm…sounds like an approach to family meetings). Were those people self referring, or family members calling you asking? Eric: Yeah.

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IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

We must often deliver complex medical information that carries heavy emotional weight in pressured settings to individuals with varying cultural backgrounds, values, and beliefs. So I think it’s a bit of both acknowledging it and the emotion that may be in the room, but also just seeing the family. Alex 19:04 Yep.

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IT Illness Families Family 132

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Panelists BJ Miller and Naomi Saks have no relationships to disclose. ” So there’s this element too, of what’s suffering in relationship to others, and can we compare? The more we can notice that, the more we can actually be present for that family and actually see how they’re experiencing it.

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IT Families Family Physicals 137

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson have no relationships to disclose. I’ve seen patients post transplant when they start having complications. They are complicated. They’re complicated from a symptom standpoint.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Panelists Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates have no relationships to disclose. Eric: Well, what are the odds that two family members focus on a similar topic and do research together? laughter] Alex: We love the family theme. All of these are factors that are on the individual level. Alex: I think this is a first.

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Community Transportation IT PCP 114

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Panelists David Bekelman, Lyndsay DeGroot, and Diah Martina have no relationships to disclose. And so, three years of seeing over and over people having really difficult end of life experiences in the ICU, not being able to advocate for themselves, a lot of trauma for their families, I just thought, we have to do better than this.

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Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

It is really difficult for the patients and the families. Patients that remind us of loved ones, patients that are often younger, really hard stories, complicated issues. Part of that, as you’re alluding to, Eric, is this relationship with authority and with rules and word association, teenage rebellion.

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IT Family Families Illness 83

GeriPal

MAY 29, 2025

Today we talk about lucid episodes and what they might mean to the person with dementia, their family and loved ones, to philosophers, to clinicians, to neuroscientists. Andrew complicates this definition , stating it raises more questions than answers. Particularly patients, families. That their loved one is in there.

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Families Family IT Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

We’ve invited two death doulas, Jane Euler and John Loughnane (who is also a family doc and palliative care physician), to talk about the role of a doula at the end of life. We are doulas for those with serious illness and those at end-of-life, just a longitudinal relationship, nonmedical support to provide presence. John: Yeah.

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Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

When we think about palliative care delivered here, like individuals with chronic pain, non-serious illness chronic pain, non-life threatening illness, oftentimes if we get consulted on them, we don’t even see them, may just be discontinued in most palliative care places. I’m not sure he would really approve.

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Community IT Relationship Healthcare 115

GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

It’s the clinicians on the rounding team, yes, but also the multidisciplinary team is really important, how they support the patient, the family, the doctors, the nurses, but also how the broader institutional structures such as ethics committees, et cetera, how they support. Alex: I found your quotes particularly hard hitting here.

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Hospital IT Patient-Centered Patients 125

GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

Second, as we discussed in last week’s podcast , older adults, particularly those in nursing homes, were far more likely to die than younger individuals. We lump everybody who’s 65 and older together, and then we don’t look at the individual characteristics of that person, so we fall into these patterns based on racial premises.

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Patients 91

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And so we worked closely with a community advisory group who, through focus groups, told us how it was that black and white individuals with serious illness had wanted to be treated. The black individuals wanted to have a separate one from the white individuals. And my community and about my family and those kinds of things.

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Consulting Community Patient-Centered Families 63

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

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. And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. those experiencing homelessness).

Healthcare 100

Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

This is my early father’s day gift from the family. But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families. Alex: I’ve got to show you the back of the Jersey. Eric: Yeah. Alex: That’s right. Jennifer: Oh nice.

Illness 110

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

Family medicine is neither the most prestigious nor the highest paid medical profession. GPs Are the Backbone of Effective Healthcare Systems Countries with a stronger focus on primary care and family medicine, rather than on hospitals and specialists, enjoy better health, 1 , 2 lower health inequalities, 2 , 3 and prevent hospitalizations.

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Family Physician Family Families GP 130

GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

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. ” I think that’s what I’m talking about with action, or it might be family leave policies.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 95

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

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. You’d have to tailor it to each individual emergency department because you couldn’t. And it was like 29eds. Is that right? Yeah, yeah.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Or is it just this lingering practice of starting dialysis early before really severe complications develop? So we created these heat maps where you could see for each individual what actually happened in the days and you. As the caregiver or as a family member of the patient? Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

Management 116

Management Patient-Centered Patients IT 116

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

It’s complicated, it’s messy. How does that defer from is it complicated grief, prolonged grief disorder? Eric: Is that the same as complicated grief? They don’t want to interact with their family. So one of the criticisms is that it’s an insult to the dignity of a loving relationship.

IT 100

IT Complication Relationship Specialization 100

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

** Claim your CME credit for EP293 “What’s Up With MAID in Canada” [link] Note : If you have not already registered for CME, you can register here [link] For more info on the CME credit, go to [link] Disclosures: Moderators Drs Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. But that was separate from MAID.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley have no relationships to disclose. This is a particularly interesting topic because we know that individuals with dementia have a high rate of entering nursing home. So you’re kind of the guest host today.

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Family Families Patient-Centered IT 106

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.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 79

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?

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Primary Care IT Provider Clinic 94

Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

At Mesa Family Physicians, we firmly believe that preventing health problems before they arise is always preferable to treating them after they’ve developed. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll explore the best examples of preventive care that can help you and your family maintain optimal health throughout all stages of life.

Preventative Care 100

Preventative Care Preventive Care Family Physician Screening 100

GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

And the argument was framed more as a healthcare choice made by individuals in conjunction with their clinicians. Robert: Professional relationship. Alex: … professional relationship to the patient? Robert: And I’m not going to what the individual provider believes is right or wrong. So religion, much less.

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Provider Medical Hospital IT 19

GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

So take a listen and if you want a deeper dive into some of the references we discuss on the podcast, here is a list: Medscape article on how “ COVID-19 Vaccines Work Better and for Longer Than Expected Across Populations, Including Immunocompromised Individuals”. Stat news article about variants/COVID becoming more predictable. Monica: Yes.

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Vaccination IT Hospital Management 100