GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Despite these substantial needs, specialized palliative care beyond hospice is rare in nursing homes. Furthermore, only about half of nursing home residents nearing the end of life receive hospice care. So, how can we improve palliative care for individuals in nursing homes? And it’s, I think, a very uplifting song.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Our experts include Katie Fitzgerald Jones (palliative nurse practitioner and doctoral student at Boston College), Zachary Sager (palliative care physician at the Boston VA and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute), and Janet Ho (physician at UCSF in addiction medicine and palliative care). But does this drug really live up to the hype?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

These individuals may become unrepresented, meaning they lack the capacity to make a specific medical decision, do not have an advance directive for that decision, and do not have a surrogate to help. How should we care for unrepresented individuals in inpatient and outpatient settings? Why not use the older term unbefriended?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Heather Coats, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and scientist and Director of Research at the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, or HPNA, an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado and Schutz College of Nursing. Summary Transcript Summary.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

I remember as a fellow, I would come in and our nurse practitioner on our hospice team, I would say the word narcotics, and f or half an hour, she would just lay into me. Do you need to be an addiction medicine trained physician to start such a clinic (no: Sach is not). See Sachs write up about setting up this clinic in JPSM.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

She was a member of the committee that wrote the National Academy’s report that we’re going to be talking about today on Improving Nursing Home Quality. We’re going to be talking about improving nursing home quality. I know you’ve been a strong advocate for nursing home patients particularly in California.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Coming off as rote and scripted during a serious illness conversation can have a similar off-putting impact on patients and families. Today we talk with Josh about how to anticipate and avoid the uncanny valley. And talk about times when we’ve fallen into it. . Key message: Listen to the music. All the time. ;). We’ll have links to it.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I think that study was really important, especially I think the message that I give people is you can do something as simple as calling a consultation and improve quality of life months later. I cant do the primary thing Ive been trained to do: ABC, ABC, ABCs. They got training in Vital Talk and ELNEC. They got feedback. So did it matter?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary Four percent of deaths in Canada are due to Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID). Four percent. The number of people who have used MAID in Canada since it was legalized in 2016 has increased year on year from about 1,000 people in the first year to over 13,000 people in 2022. It is the slippery slope made real. Oh my gosh.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

While we like to think about how our goals and preferences will influence what that life looks like, including whether you will get potentially burdensome interventions, your fate is probably influenced more by factors like where you live and what nursing home you happen to end up in. . Eric: And Alex, we got a full house today. Thanks, Alex.

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