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. Eric: Yeah.

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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. But watch out!

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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. Just encourage patients and families to bring music into their healthcare experience.

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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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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Rethinking Automation and Inequity in Healthcare [link] [link] [link] MD Calc approach to inclusion of race [link] —— Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Now actually suggesting perhaps that you missed a diagnosis that you should have considered? Is there a true relationship with that? Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

And I feel like a lot of this is really, you know, moving away from another podcast we did is industrialization of healthcare and really focusing on the individual that’s in front of you. This is still part of the gap that we need to do collectively as a, as a healthcare organization. Eric 29:17 Why do you think that is?

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

Alex: We are honored to welcome Dr. Rajagopal, who goes by Raj, who is the author of Walk with the Weary: Lessons in Humanity in Healthcare. The reasons are tied to the basically poor healthcare in low and middle income countries. It’s easier to concentrate on cure, diagnosis, cure. Healthcare industry cannot do it.

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BMJ

MAY 10, 2022

Introductory article to İkİIşik H, Sezerol MA, Taşçı Y, et alCOVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and related factors among primary healthcare workers in a district of Istanbul: a cross-sectional study from TurkeyFamily Medicine and Community Health 2022;10:e001430. COVID-19 diagnosis of self Yes 24 (44.4) 150 (54.3) 126 (45.7) 162 (58.7)

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

Matt Tyler (aka Pallidad for those on Twitter ): Matt is the Hospice and Palliative care doctor who created How To Train Your Doctor , which helps patients living with serious illness find tips on “owning” their healthcare plan on his Instagram and YouTube pages. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Panelists Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin have no relationships to disclose. Our field really lacks specificity in the terms that we use, and I think we really don’t know how chronic cancer pain, let’s say, a few years out from that initial diagnosis differs from, let’s say, chronic low back pain.

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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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GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

Elise 07:02 So healthcare workers for sure. So the first thing, explain the diagnosis. Eric 26:25 So if that therapeutic relationship reverses and now they’re supporting you. And just sort of acknowledge that because this person’s probably had a longer relationship, this patient, than I have. Take the courses.

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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, I don’t see a huge value of putting her down as a durable power of attorney for healthcare. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Alex: Okay, interesting. Eric: I’ve heard that before.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

An end-of-life doula is a non-medical support person that provides a longitudinal relationship with aspects of medical, I mean, aspects of companionship, presence, holding space, some logistics, some practical help, decision making perhaps. All of this really turns into an emotional partnership with someone. John: Yeah. I would add, too.

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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. Nicole 12:14 No, HFpEF is cool, and it’s fine. What is GDMT?

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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.” There’s a reason why the VA is ahead of us in terms of integrating behavioral healthcare.

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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’s going to be very interesting to see how that unfolds in healthcare practice.

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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. I have oncology on the brain. So their practices were really collaborative and informed.

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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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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

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. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers have no relationships to disclose.

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GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

Part of that, as you’re alluding to, Eric, is this relationship with authority and with rules and word association, teenage rebellion. Abby Rosenberg, Nick Purol, Daniel Eison, & Andrea Thach appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. It’s very fraught.

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IT Family Families Illness 83

GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

So she had them early in diagnosis and then a little bit later. Eric: Well, I’m going to jump around a little bit because I’m going to go, Brad, I had a chance to read some of your book and one of the chapters was on your own prostate cancer diagnosis. Brad: Yeah. God, that was almost 20 years ago now, Eric.

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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. So one of the criticisms is that it’s an insult to the dignity of a loving relationship. This led her on a remarkable journey. What does that even mean?

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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 just using in that context of a trusted kind of clinician-patient relationship and seeing how we can better improve shared decision-making. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

Yeah, but I mean, in healthcare you need to appreciate the risks, benefits and alternatives of the proposed intervention. Just got the diagnosis based on blood tests of amyloid. Then just got the diagnosis. It’s a, it’s a, it’s a past self directing healthcare for a future self. What about stage four?

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

Skepticism on the ability of predictive models to transform healthcare Consolidation of EHR’s into the hands of a very few companies, and potential for the drug and device industry to influence care delivery by tweaking AI in ways that are not transparent and already a sort of magical black box. Bob: Exactly. It could be anybody.

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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. So still we have this bidirectional relationship. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease. It’s about establishing a relationship and rapport. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar have no relationships to disclose. So I think that was one of the key eligibility criteria.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Eric: Which is, so let’s say I am a provider, a healthcare provider taking, let’s say a nurse practitioner working in an older, a clinic that’s mainly caring for older adults. Really, to be a bridge between whether it’s a health plan on the healthcare side, Greg mentioned a hospital discharge, which is so common.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Mike Rabow shares his award winning poem about coming out to the world about his diagnosis with multiple sclerosis. . This is a poem that gets into this issue of, what is the clinician relationship to all that stuff that’s going on around us? So my only question is what my relationship will be to suffering. Mike: Yeah.

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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. Eric 19:11 Yeah, I love that, too, because I always think about healthcare systems, too. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. And, Liz, this is why I really liked your paper.

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Family Families Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

Well, Haider has an intimate relationship with pain, having experienced chronic pain himself and now having dove deep into the latest research on pain for his new book The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain. . Haider: Well, first he would never die without a diagnosis. This is a tough situation. It puts patients at risk.

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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. Taking HIV back to a life threatening diagnosis instead of the chronic condition.

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Primary Care IT Provider Clinic 94

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. We have a lot of loss of libido, loss of physical intimacy as a result of the changing dynamic in the relationship.

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

At a high level to sort of step in and start, you know, tinkering with workflows that, you know, are kind of as healthcare is a giant machine in primary care. You didn’t ask about it, but for us, it was very important to examine differences for older adults with a diagnosis of dementia. Is that right?

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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. Healthcare companies. That also speaks to a lot of the particular family relationships and, of course, in that case, allegations of mistreatment along racial lines and so forth. And a lot of my work has kind of been that vein.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 1, 2023

If you are interested in learning more about the draft guidelines and the response from AGS to these guidelines, check out the following links: Revised Criteria for Diagnosis and Staging of Alzheimer’s Disease: Alzheimer’s Association Workgroup AGS’s response to the revised criteria Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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