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?

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Often when there’s a cognitive concern, it’s a family member that is calling saying, “I just want to make sure my mom should still be driving after this happened, or after this diagnosis.” Because how that is approached can have lasting effects on relationships, unfortunately. Eric: Yeah.

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Families IT Family Diagnosis 102

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. Noelle Marie, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Noelle Marie 00:57 Hi, everyone.

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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. Relationships are usually more complicated. There are lots of people involved.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 97

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?

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Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Rather, most of us live and make decisions in relationship to one another. In general, the case is a patient who wound up with a new diagnosis of metastatic cancer during the course of the admission and at a certain point had full capacity, was able to make decisions and communicate. Lynn: Sure. Anne Rohlfing: Yeah.

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Families Family Patient-Centered IT 98

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.

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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. So, early childhood education, all of those things help of people who are younger because when they get older, that matters as well. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. She helped them do something about it.

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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.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

We are delighted to welcome Jane Euler, who is lead doula and co-founder of Present for You, which is a benefit LLC company that provides doula support 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. Jane: Right.

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Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

And for many years, I think there was a focus on physicians and then providers. We’ve done work with medical improvised, we’ve done work in museum based education. So the first thing, explain the diagnosis. Gordon 12:01 One absolute right answer to all these questions, and we will provide that. Anne 26:34 Yes.

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IT Illness Families Family 132

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.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

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. There’s a lot of stops along the way for education. MRIs prior, genetic testing prior.

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Patient-Centered IT Clinic Patients 98

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

But, you know, I’ve talked to a lot of palliative care providers, a lot of people caring for people with serious illness. Alex 10:49 And then when you say accountability without termination, that sounds like it speaks to a core principle of palliative care around non abandonment and building relationships. Julia 11:02 Yeah.

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Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 73

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Jennifer: Yeah, so I think as all the listeners of this podcast know, and I know he did do a podcast with you guys when he was still able to verbally communicate, with Randy Curtis’ diagnosis of, I keep wanting to say AML, ALS. The model is predominantly physicians, advanced practice providers. I have oncology on the brain.

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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. GDMT was mentioned a couple times.

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Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

And is there a middle path to provide some degree of comfort while also hastening the end of life? I mean, you know, we’re trying to both honor what, what the surrogate believes is the, the patient’s preference, which we do all the time with all kinds of other medical interventions and provide comfort in a humane way.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 88

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease. So at our cancer center, we have physicians, advanced practice providers. Jennifer 20:48 We don’t, you know, our palliative care team here in the outpatient setting is only physicians and advanced practice providers. As Pahlavi said, you could refer to other providers.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

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. And so spouses are typically the ones for patients who provide most of the caregiving support. And health shocks.

Illness 73

Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 73

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. The long-term care is being actually provided in the community at a much higher rate than what the formal system provides. But, what you need is a community-based game there. They deal with that.

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

Have been now a care provider for people with HIV for over 40 years. And I became more and more involved in it, including becoming involved in research and developing some of the programs initially to provide care for people with both drug use and HIV related problems, women with HIV vulnerable populations. Is a new diagnosis of HIV.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Provider 94

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.

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Patient-Centered IT Community Illness 93

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.

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

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. It’ll provide you with like a percentage estimate of probability of nursing home level of care at two, five and ten years, and also the median predicted time to nursing home care.

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Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

And so a lot of it was the facilitators calling out with the approval of the provider to the patients ahead of time to see, like, you have a visit coming up. There’s also education that goes with it, educating, like, what does that mean? Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. This is what I do here.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 79

GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

I love these topics, too, because even how do we define what is a diagnosis? Healthcare provide. They’re often the ones who are most directly in touch with a grieving family or may have their own concerns about the care that’s being provided and the worth or value of what they’re showing up and doing every day.

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IT Families Family Patient-Centered 113

GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

“Typically when we think about conscience in medical ethics we think about it in terms of a negative claim of conscience, where a clinician refuses (or objects) to provide care. Lisa was writing about providing abortion care, but she just as easily could have been writing about providing medical aid in dying in states where it is illegal.

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