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? Eric: Our outpatient service does have guides around diagnosis and prognosis. Kate: A diagnosis. By prognosis?

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

We got some really special guests with us. Zachary: So seeing a non-onc population at the VA and out-patient at Dana-Farber, and that when someone comes to me with a diagnosis of opioid use disorder, it is much easier you kind of have an idea of where you’re going to start. Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Anne: Well, speaking of your kids, a very special, sometimes listener, chimed in named Ren Smith. We’re willing to spend $50,000 a year for individuals for their expensive pharmacy medication. We shouldn’t be mandating individuals, this should be an optional thing for individuals. Alex: Okay. Alex: Thank you.

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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 29, 2024

We must often deliver complex medical information that carries heavy emotional weight in pressured settings to individuals with varying cultural backgrounds, values, and beliefs. So the first thing, explain the diagnosis. And my grandkid, like, I need you to see this child and, like, how wonderful and special they are.

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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. . Very interested in decision making around as we get older, individualizing care, sort of patient centered, values driven, it’s a tough decision to figure out. Chrissy: That’s fascinating.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

And, you know, I just thought it was a really special song. Like, with a cancer diagnosis, there’s relatively a smooth, smooth prognosis. Is that, and we try to use, often use the term prognostic humility, that unlike more than any other diagnosis, really, we truly need to be humble, right. We’re talking about liver.

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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 with dementia make up about half of hospice admissions.

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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. It’s all individual. Brad: Yeah.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. What does this diagnosis mean to you? You begin with psychosocial assessment and care.

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IT Family Families Clinic 102

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. And that’s not particularly sexy. So people want to hear more about gurgling and things like that. Eric: Great.

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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 also it’s a little bit of an insult to one’s identity to feel like if this special person in your life can be forgotten, then you can be forgotten.

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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. This is a particularly interesting topic because we know that individuals with dementia have a high rate of entering nursing home. Alex 00:05 To claim credit, p lease go to the C ME tab on GeriPal.org.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

What are the structural factors and individual factors that contribute to homelessness? We would drill down on the tenth differential diagnosis of medium vessel vasculitis, and then we would discharge them back out to the streets. Alex: But the longer title’s Ethno-Geriatrics and Special Populations. What was I doing?

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

Alex 16:55 My guess is probably not something that most geriatricians or internists or family medicine docs caring for older people have on their differential diagnosis. Is a new diagnosis of HIV. If they did, it was before AIDS was a diagnosis. In San Francisco, HIV care was more specialized in that. Meredith 17:07 Yes.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

And is it at all individualized to the patient? Danny 12:07 I don’t know how individualized it is. And that included scheduling a visit with a, with a facilitator who had been specially trained. It’s a lot. Eric 12:01 Does it talk about like outcomes, like the outcomes of cpr? And Jennifer, if you go ahead.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But what happened when we finally… When he did get the diagnosis, it all fell into place. He created fee for service, special fee for depression. And we defined that as earlier detection and timely detection diagnosis to evaluation, care planning delivery, all the way to end of life. And I talked with Jürgen.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

And the argument was framed more as a healthcare choice made by individuals in conjunction with their clinicians. I think when professionals act in the interests of their patients, they are acting under their professional duty to patients, period. There’s nothing special about it. So religion, much less.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The patients that, I think, most benefited from it were those individuals who, as I said, maybe, had a pneumonia, and needed IV antibiotics, but wanted to do that… If they could get better in the comfort of their own homes, that were not interested in passing away in the hospital. Bruce: This is, Ghostbusters, basically, a ham radio.

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