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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

We talk with Nick and Meg about: Why hearing loss is important not just in geriatrics but also for those caring for seriously ill individuals. 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.

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Coping with Serious Illness: Danielle Chammas and Amanda Moment

GeriPal

Coping in the setting of serious illness. Coping in the setting of a serious illness about a patient encounter you had with somebody who used an. And then I knew, and then I knew that he is using this humor to deal with the truth of his illness, not to avoid it. Should I laugh at that? So you just published not too long ago.

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Artificial Intelligence: Charlotta Lindvall, Matt DeCamp, Sei Lee

GeriPal

Because the in serious illness care and care for older adults, their care is often very complex. 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. Because I don’t know how you train that sort of a AI ethicist clinical ethics consultant.

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Nudges for Prognosis and Comfort Care in the ICU: Kate Courtright, Scott Halpern, & Jaspal Singh

GeriPal

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. Participants were critically ill and intubated. P AI R stands for Palliative and Advanced Illness Research Center. Where was it?

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

We think there are some cases, certain kinds of illnesses or conditions or operations, where people have the surgery and never get out of bed again. So for example, tracheostomies frequently occur in patients who are quite ill, but it’s not the trach itself that tends to lead to the mortality, it’s their generalized illness.