GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson have no relationships to disclose. If they’ve said they had a traumatic experience receiving a diagnosis. And so in terms of, am I looking to put a DSM diagnosis to someone? AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. I wonder why?

Illness 129

Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 129

Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

MARCH 16, 2022

She was raised in a forward-thinking, socially active family. Blackwell played an important role in both the United States and the United Kingdom as a social awareness and moral reformer, and promoted education for women in medicine through her inspirational book Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women.

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Medical Education DO Family Medicine 40

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Often the work of the certified driving rehab specialist is to assess the older drivers goals, assess prognosis for driving, and help the family navigate discussions around driving cessation (hmmm…sounds like an approach to family meetings). Were those people self referring, or family members calling you asking? Eric: Yeah.

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IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

The ability to appreciate, recognize, and engage with music is preserved even until late stages of dementia, and Theresa is examining how music can be useful from the time of diagnosis, not only for the person with dementia, but their caregivers. And we got all into his family stuff and how he’d been suffering with cancer and his goal.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 96

GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

It feels nearly impossible if you add another degree of difficulty, whether it be a crying interpreter or a grandchild from another state who shows up at the end of a family meeting yelling how you are killing grandma. We’ve done work with medical improvised, we’ve done work in museum based education. What should I say?

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IT Illness Families Family 132

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Alex 00:41 And we’re delighted to welcome Noelle Marie Javier, who goes by “she” “her” and is a geriatrician and palliative care doc professor, newly minted – c ongratulations – And a clinician educator at Mount Sinai in New York City. If we think of discrimination, how people are treated by their biological family.

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Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 81

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson have no relationships to disclose. Like, with a cancer diagnosis, there’s relatively a smooth, smooth prognosis. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. We know what’s going to happen.

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest hosts Lynn Flint and Anne Kelly have no relationships to disclose. Eric: I do not want my family to listen to my podcasts. So, I generally don’t listen to the podcast afterwards, nor force them on my family. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

IT 126

IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 126

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Panelists Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin have no relationships to disclose. Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Panelists Elissa Kozlov and Desiree Azizoddin have no relationships to disclose. We might say, “Of course you’re sad, you just got a very serious diagnosis.” AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Is this a new onset depression? Is this an adjustment disorder?

Mental Health 122

Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

There is a lot to digest with these draft clinical guidelines but the big change from the 2018 guideline is moving Alzheimers to a biological diagnosis (biomarker evidence only) not just for a research framework but now from a clinical one. And that could extend beyond 18 months. We just don’t know that. Eric: Who are the right people?

Patient-Centered 98

Patient-Centered IT Clinic Patients 98

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

We’ve invited two death doulas, Jane Euler and John Loughnane (who is also a family doc and palliative care physician), to talk about the role of a doula at the end of life. We are doulas for those with serious illness and those at end-of-life, just a longitudinal relationship, nonmedical support to provide presence. John: Yeah.

Provider 117

Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

This is my early father’s day gift from the family. But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families. Alex: I’ve got to show you the back of the Jersey. Eric: Yeah. Alex: That’s right. Jennifer: Oh nice.

Illness 110

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

And I think one key part is educating the field, not just my fellow cardiologists, but also primary care doctors, geriatricians, that there’s this heart failure syndrome that is kind of sneaky, and it’s kind of difficult to diagnose any. Eric 12:05 Any pearls on the diagnosis of HFpEF. A pill organizer, having family.

Primary Care 113

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

** Claim your CME credit for EP293 “What’s Up With MAID in Canada” [link] Note : If you have not already registered for CME, you can register here [link] For more info on the CME credit, go to [link] Disclosures: Moderators Drs Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Eric: Yeah.

Illness 144

Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

Alex 00:48 And we’re delighted to welcome back Josh Briscoe, who’s a palliative care doc at the Durham VA Medical center in Duke and blogs at Notes from a Family Meeting. And it was very clear, and she could now no longer recognize her family members. And the family says, dad would never want to live like this.

IT 87

IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 87

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease. It’s about establishing a relationship and rapport. So I don’t know how clinically meaningful that week difference was to families. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. So I think that was one of the key eligibility criteria.

Patient-Centered 119

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

For the foreseeable future, it’s going to be right 90%, 95%, 85%, so the safety system, of course, will be, the AI says something, makes a recommendation or gives you a draft diagnosis or drafts your note, and then, the failsafe is, the doctor reads it over. I’m connecting. This is GPT-4. “Hi, GPT-4. ” Alex: Wow.

IT 139

IT Electronics Patients Healthcare 139

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

And there is this bidirectional relationship between wealth and health shocks. And then I was inspired by this paper and then really interested in looking at the bidirectional relationship between the two of them. We focus on function and mortality because these are outcomes that really are important to patients and families.

Illness 93

Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley have no relationships to disclose. And just like cultural background, there are some individuals and families that would really never have their loved one enter a nursing home, choosing instead to take care of them.

Family 106

Family Families Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Administration on Aging connecting you to services for older adults and their families California’s Master Plan for Aging New York’s Master Plan for Aging Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. I knew them, I developed a relationship with them. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith. Eric: Great, thank you both.

Community 89

Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

And so this is our way of supporting non English speaking families in advanced care planning. And I have a long interest in identifying family caregivers and supporting them in care delivery. And so this was really, in my view, a perfect window for reinforcing the role of family in primary care. Eric 02:32 Great, Alex.

Primary Care 79

Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 79

GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Mike Rabow shares his award winning poem about coming out to the world about his diagnosis with multiple sclerosis. . We talk not only about reading poetry, but also writing poetry, and using poetry in medical education as a healing modality. Redwing, who is a cancer survivor, shares poems about her experiences with cancer.

Patient-Centered 93

Patient-Centered IT Community Illness 93

GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

Alex 00:07 We are delighted to welcome Peter Selwyn, who is a family medicine and palliative medicine doctor and chairman of the Department of Family and Social Medicine and director of the Palliative Care Program at Montefiore E instein and author of Surviving the the Personal Journey of an AIDS Doctor. Is a new diagnosis of HIV.

Primary Care 94

Primary Care IT Clinic Provider 94

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

So this is about two and a half, three years out from leukemia diagnosis. And that really is what prompted me to get certified as a sexual education provider. There is a patient caregiver relationship that evolves over time, and there’s less of a focus on intimacy in that relationship. And I said, sure.

Illness 130

Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

I love these topics, too, because even how do we define what is a diagnosis? Patients families want to know whether their loved one has died. And one would be when care is continuing a case where people believe that the patients died, or oftentimes, this is also a source of controversy between families and clinicians.

IT 113

IT Families Family Patient-Centered 113

GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

By way of… Sort of starting this off, it’d be great if one of you would come up and help educate our audience in some lay terms, what are rights of consciousness? Robert: Professional relationship. Alex: … professional relationship to the patient? What are we talking about here? Robert: Yes, I do.

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Provider Medical Hospital Patient-Centered 19