GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Rather they’re Ill, maybe they’re aging unsuccessfully, but never really resilient. And for people with dementia and their caregivers, who both feel very devalued in the social system, support systems, their communities, the medical system. What does resilience look like for individuals with dementia? There is no cure.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

I was on a retreat with Guy Micco , who’s been on this podcast several times, and he was teaching a class on death while I was in medical school. What is it about the images of the dying that helps teach medical students? And dying is too big, too profound for any one model, including the medical model. Where can they go?

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Disruptive events are medical, surgical. I think part of this does stem from a clinical experience and also some of the theoretical models that have evolved around serious illness, you know, to think specifically about dementia. And hospitalization for pneumonia is like a medical event. I have no idea what that is.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, for example, everyone who was diagnosed with an advanced or metastatic lung cancer had a prognosis on the order of months. Alex 12:36 And most of our listeners are like clinician, practicing clinicians caring for older adults, people with serious illness. I guess we would say that most trials are superiority trials.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Poetry helps us grapple with our own experiences of illness. We talk not only about reading poetry, but also writing poetry, and using poetry in medical education as a healing modality. Links to Redwing’s poetry workshops: Food for Thought Poetry for Resiliency. Redwing: That’s what we do in these workshops.

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