GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

She directs UCSF MERI’s patient, family, and clinician support with classes and consultation on resiliency, well-being, and grief. Alex: First three words would be, family and history and diversity. Judy Long, MDiv, BCC , palliative care chaplain and educator at UCSF and caregiver. Anne: Is there a movement? I love them.

Community 101

Community IT Individual Patient-Centered 101

GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

So my background clinically is working with cancer patients and families and those who underwent bone marrow transplant, and a lot of times for their treatment regimen, it includes steroids. What is the role of the family caregiver system, how they play a role? Tamryn: Yes, 100%. And I don’t know where if we’re there yet.

Diabetes 73

Diabetes Management Patient-Centered Family 73

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson have no relationships to disclose. So it tends to be future oriented and tends to show up as a physical sensation in our body. But it’s this physical sensation that comes along with these ideations.

Illness 129

Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 129

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.

IT 102

IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Summary Transcript CME Summary It is a battle royale on this weeks GeriPal podcast.

Telehealth 105

Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

MARCH 16, 2022

She was raised in a forward-thinking, socially active family. This important work observed that there was a relationship between radioactivity and the heavy elements of the periodic table, and led to much advancement in medicine. The Curie Institute in Paris, she founded in 1920, is still a major cancer research facility today.

Medical 40

Medical Education Family Medicine DO 40

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.

IT 96

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. So the first thing, explain the diagnosis. And you’re in the ICU family meeting, and it gets heated.

IT 132

IT Illness Family Families 132

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

And I think a big part of that journey was just having that right time, that right moment, with the right network and support groups of individuals, including my family, to really lift me up and allow me to celebrate my authentic self. Gender expression is your physical outward manifestation of how you express your gender identity.

Individual 85

Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 85

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. We know what’s going to happen.

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

It is really difficult for the patients and the families. Part of that, as you’re alluding to, Eric, is this relationship with authority and with rules and word association, teenage rebellion. You’re recognizing that, wow, this could happen to me, and I wonder sometimes about the challenges. It’s very fraught.

IT 83

IT Family Families Illness 83

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

JUNE 15, 2023

Now actually suggesting perhaps that you missed a diagnosis that you should have considered? I actually like reading books and the physical,” and what the internet 2.0 Is there a true relationship with that? Eric: Yeah. And I think that’s where it gets really interesting from the standpoint of ethics.

IT 99

IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 99

GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

It’s easier to concentrate on cure, diagnosis, cure. What she called total pain, physical, psychosocial, and spiritual, and she started addressing it. We know that this is necessary in theory, we know that health is not only absence of disease, but physical, social, and mental wellbeing. Healthcare industry cannot do it.

Community 115

Community IT Relationship Healthcare 115

GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Matt Tyler, Sammy Winemaker and Hsien Seow have no relationships to disclose. Julie McFadden discloses an employee relationship started on 15Apr2024. How you actually physically started doing this and built up so many followers over time and why are you doing it?

Education 127

Education IT Illness Healthcare 127

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Panelists Elissa Kozlov and Desiree Azizoddin have no relationships to disclose. A lot of those symptoms of depression can also be attributed to different kinds of physical symptoms. We might say, “Of course you’re sad, you just got a very serious diagnosis.”

Mental Health 122

Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Eric 12:05 Any pearls on the diagnosis of HFpEF. So I would agree, just in terms of not trying to dismiss a lot of these patients in terms of deconditioning and really trying to sometimes hone in on the diagnosis despite a Bnp level that is not necessarily very high. A pill organizer, having family. What is GDMT?

Primary Care 113

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

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. Alex: We are only on the fourth of 10.

IT 126

IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 126

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. But that was separate from MAID. Eric: Yeah.

Illness 144

Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Holly has accumulated mountains of evidence for the diagnosis of prolonged grief disorder as a specific condition primarily notable for a yearning over a year after the death. And what we mean is like they’re physical numbness or they trip over that particular symptom, but it’s that sense of detachment from living people.

IT 100

IT Relationship Complication Specialization 100

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

And if you look at previous kind of population-based studies, the median survival time after diagnosis is really broad and can range based on the study from 3 to 12 years. So we wanted to create a model that’s going to reflect that sort of risk and what it also means for their families and financial decisions. Eric: Yeah.

IT 95

IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease. It’s about establishing a relationship and rapport. We did not just rely on a physical symptom measure, which many of our colleagues are doing. It’s not just about physical symptom management. So I think that was one of the key eligibility criteria.

Patient-Centered 119

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Wait, so one key message is that social health is linked to physical and cognitive health?!? 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 health shocks.

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. So how physically active the patient is, how much time they spend awake, how much they’re eating, how much care they need, that type of thing. Eric 05:50 Yeah.

Family 106

Family Families Patient-Centered IT 106

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

So this is about two and a half, three years out from leukemia diagnosis. There is a patient caregiver relationship that evolves over time, and there’s less of a focus on intimacy in that relationship. All guests agree that clinicians feel they need to have something they can do if they open Pandora’s box.

Illness 130

Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

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