GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

We talk with Kate about how despite how far we’ve come in palliative care research, we still don’t have answers to some fundamental questions, such as: Who should get specialized palliative care? By diagnosis? We can’t possibly meet the needs of all people with newly diagnosed serious illness. By prognosis? Thank you, Eric.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Because I think we have someone special, a guest host. And so, unfortunately, I think for a while, this condition, for many people, isn’t diagnosed until you end up seeing a cardiologist or a heart failure doctor who’s really honed in on this to say, actually, this is a heart failure syndrome. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

We got some really special guests with us. And I remember being there and there was a patient who had seen inpatient and then subsequently outpatient who was so thankful in the weirdest in just this irrational way for having been diagnosed with liver cancer. And sometimes you can make a use disorder of diagnosis in hindsight.

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GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

We’ve invited some very special guests to talk about the lower urinary tract – Christine Kistler and Scott Bauer. . But really those urinary tract signs and symptoms should be driving your diagnosis. 50 to 70% of people who are diagnosed with UTIs probably don’t have a UTI. I hear it’s over diagnosed.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. So I really opted to specialize in lung cancer because I thought that was the appropriate population to build a supportive and palliative care research agenda. Jennifer: Thanks.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

I was asking about what was going to be special about the trip or if they were going to do things with their family. They’re like, “Everyone wants to make every moment of our day special.” So she had them early in diagnosis and then a little bit later. ” He turned to his wife and they were laughing.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. Eric: Alex, we have a super special today. We’ve got a hospice super special. Alex: We have a hospice super special day. People across all diagnoses want hospice care.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

And when I think about some of the … There was actually a meta-analysis looking at specialized palliative care studies, only half of the 10 randomized control studies had a social worker as part of that team. What does this diagnosis mean to you? And then my mom was diagnosed with lung cancer and she was treated there.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

And then for Hsien and for Sammy, this is a real social movement that you’re trying to… The movement upstream, getting people to consider what are the serious issues at the time of diagnosis with serious illness. So that’s kind of what unifies us, I would say. Everyone is so lovely and helpful to each other.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

One in 10 people with newly diagnosed HIV is an older adult. And over that first 15 years, which was a very difficult time when there was no treatment at all available, everybody died and usually within months or a year or two of when they were diagnosed. And I also read that 1 out of 10 newly diagnosed HIV cases are in older adults.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

On today’s podcast Areej El-Jawahri, oncologist specializing in blood cancers at MGH, says that sexual health is one of the top if not the top issue among cancer survivors. Alex 00:06 We are delighted to welcome back Areej El-Jawahri, who’s an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who specializes in blood cancers.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Eric 00:13 And Alex, we have a super special today, three different articles. Alex 00:18 Prognosis, super special today. Eric 25:08 Super special. Eric 47:55 And thank you to all of our listeners for joining us on this prognosis… Alex 48:00 Super special e P rognosis. Eric 00:09 Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

Haider: Yeah, this is a special song. And in some ways I have this special responsibility in part, along with others, to pass those teachings along to a new generation who may never get to talk to him in the middle of a day on a landline. Haider: Well, first he would never die without a diagnosis. But I certainly did.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

But most people with dementia are initially diagnosed and medically managed in primary care, and they really desire clinicians to initiate these conversations but there are a number of really important barriers for these conversations taking place. And that included scheduling a visit with a, with a facilitator who had been specially trained.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Mike Rabow shares his award winning poem about coming out to the world about his diagnosis with multiple sclerosis. . Redwing: When you’re diagnosed with cancer, the first thing you think about is when you’re going to die. Poetry helps us grapple with our own experiences of illness. Why not live as long as possible?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Eric: And looking back at that time, what do you think the healthcare system could have done to help with that? With your journey, with your dad’s journey- Diane: They could have diagnosed him earlier. They could have diagnosed him earlier. So that’s I think diagnoses. But it was also later on in the disease.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The other way to think about who’s eligible… I talked about coming at this from a diagnosis point of view, people with certain conditions that you need to be hospitalized for. You can broaden the scope of diagnoses. We’re not paid, as part of a DRG, for any particular diagnosis. There are some subtleties there.

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