GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

They’re starting to decompose even in the toes and fingers, and we’ll sit there and tell their family, we think they’re suffering, because we are suffering watching them, and we want them to make a decision that’ll make us feel better and take the suffering away as quickly as possible. Pain Manag Nurs. 2023.11.004.

IT 137

IT Family Families Physicals 137

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

JANUARY 25, 2024

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. I was really passionate about helping the people and also their families. David: Exactly.

Patient-Centered 122

Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

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. Relationships are usually more complicated.

IT 96

IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 96

GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

Alex: It’s complicated. We, for very complicated reasons, ended up with niacin. Stacy: We’re using anxiety, baseline anxiety, as our screening. Alex: So that’s not our prototypical screening ESAS question. So, creating a- Alex: Control condition. Eric: Yeah. Alex: Psychedelics, promise and pitfalls.

Patient-Centered 91

Patient-Centered Community IT Medical 91

GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

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. So I actually got started in cancer screening also, thanks to some mutual colleagues. Eric: So this is a complicated pathway, right?

Management 122

Management IT Medical Patient-Centered 122

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

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. In addition to the grab bars, we have also helped train the EMS professionals in different lenses about screening. Welcome, Katie, to the GeriPal podcast. Katie: Awesome.

Community 114

Community Transportation IT PCP 114

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

We then walk through how we should screen for anxiety and how we should think about a differential. How do you think about non pharmacological approaches, or maybe even in the people who just have a shorter, maybe less complicated anxiety, but it’s still impacting their sleep?

Illness 129

Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 129

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.

Family 93

Family Families IT Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

This is my early father’s day gift from the family. I had it on my screen. 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. Jennifer: Yeah.

Illness 110

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And so it was really the patients, you know, the caregivers, the family members were the ones who were sort of the closest in observing. Later on, of course, we added health professionals to, you know, give us more information. And my community and about my family and those kinds of things. Our consultation. Marie 11:03 Yes.

Consulting 63

Consulting Community Patient-Centered Family 63

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Harvey is probably best known for his work in developing dignity therapy, a psychological intervention designed specifically to address many of the psychological, existential, and spiritual challenges that patients and their families face as death approaches. Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that.

Patient-Centered 98

Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

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. You feel a lot of things and you may feel a lot of things in the same day. Holly: Oh absolutely.

IT 100

IT Relationship Complication Specialization 100

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

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

We see our patients and our families throughout the illness trajectory into the hospital. And I think the advanced planning debate is really a question of, how do we help this very complicated situation? It’s hard for your family to know. It’s part of our family mythology. We see them struggle, right?

Illness 98

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 98

GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

That’s what I had done with my abortion research, and I had also studied newborn screening policies evolving. This is going to be harmful to them and their family at the end of life. And tell me if I’m wrong, but I sort of feel like you’re either providing medical aid in dying or you are not.

Provider 19

Provider Medical Hospital IT 19

GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

Our department chair is always tweeting, and I think there was a fourth shot and then a mild infection in a family member. And to be very fair, there was a study in 2013 in family practice, this would be important, I think for those who treat older patients. And one in five people had a serious COVID complication. Monica: Yeah.

Vaccination 100

Vaccination IT Hospital Management 100

GeriPal

JULY 16, 2024

We talk about positive aspects of aging, cognitive screening, the line between legitimate concerns and ageism, ableism, advice for a geriatrician asked to comment on TV, frailty and physical disability, images in the press , historical situations including , and an upper age limit for the Presidency, among other issues. There is a tension.

Diagnosis 141

Diagnosis Diagnose IT Physicals 141