GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

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. Or, do we know anything even how common it is, serious illness, palliative care populations? How to screen for hearing loss. They grew up with hearing aids and they need something.”

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IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. Should we use Ozempic (if we can find it) in patients with serious illness, which often results in undesirable and profound weight loss? Listen in to learn more!

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Diabetes Management Patient-Centered Family 73

GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

But now that at least at the University of Pennsylvania, the radiation oncology department is sort of well integrated into the cancer center here, and we have a really strong relationship with the palliative care team and even the internal medicine residents whom we give talks to. So you have the consultation. Like, is it just boom?

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Patient-Centered Referral Patients IT 102

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Panelists Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin have no relationships to disclose. Panelists Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin have no relationships to disclose. Eric: And Alex, we’re going to be talking about substance use disorder and serious illness and aging, with three amazing experts. This is Eric Widera.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

nursing homes grapple with serious illnesses, and roughly half experience dementia. The reason that you’re in a nursing home is because you have some mix of serious illness and multimorbidity, usually functional impairments. And so we do have consultants who come in the building. Consider this: the majority of the 1.4

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Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Today we talk with experts Janet Ho, Sach Kale, and Julie Childers about opioid use disorder and serious illness. Eric 00:51 So we’re gonna be talking about caring for people with serious illness and substance abuse. Who has a song request for Alex before we talk about substance use disorder and serious illness?

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Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 72

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

He looked very ill. An end-of-life doula is a non-medical support person that provides a longitudinal relationship with aspects of medical, I mean, aspects of companionship, presence, holding space, some logistics, some practical help, decision making perhaps. The last thing I’ll say is I actually saw his very last performance.

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Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117