GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

My great-grandmother in particular had a very profound hearing loss and I don’t know, as a kid, I was obsessed with taking them apart and wanted to do more of the engineering side. And honestly in undergrad I was like, “Engineering is really hard. I wonder if you could engage their family in the goals of care discussion.”

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

So there’s some stuff out there like that, but also using AI to determine who at high risk and should get a palliative care consult. Charlotta: But that’s where generative AI, what I’m like, one thing I’m really excited about is this new field called prompt engineering. Like who is at high risk or low risk?

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

But if we’re going to have a family meeting, that’s a different circumstance. It’s amazing how often when we’re taking care of somebody in the hospital, if you have Say, you know, a family member who is not showing up for visits with the medical team or who is. So help serves and hinders in everybody.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And then, the family, her kids got together, my wife and her brother and sister got together and said, wait a minute, mom did not want this, right? So, you really have to leave this up to the patients and their families to understand what the context is and what is meaningful to them. She has advance dementia. They would be horrified.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. We talked about the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems, so the CAP measures.

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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. And so we simply asked clinicians, have you offered this patient and, or their family the option of care focused on comfort? What is sludge?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

People are also using YouTube specifically, but social media as its own search engine. People are coming from the south, they’re coming from the islands for their surgeries or for their rare disease consultations or their specialty follow ups for really advanced or difficult cases. So I lived with a family there.

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