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Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

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And yet we’re also in a different place in diabetes monitoring and management. And we invited Tamryn Gray from the Dana Farber joins us to ask insightful questions, including: What blood sugar range should we target for patients in the nursing home or hospice? Listen in to learn more! This is Eric Widera. Welcome back, Alex.

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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

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Our experts include Katie Fitzgerald Jones (palliative nurse practitioner and doctoral student at Boston College), Zachary Sager (palliative care physician at the Boston VA and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute), and Janet Ho (physician at UCSF in addiction medicine and palliative care). And how am I going to manage their pain?

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Telehealth vs In-Person Palliative Care: A Podcast with Joseph Greer, Lynn Flint, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson

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Alex 01:43 And we have Simone Rinaldi, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and director of nursing for the MGH Division of Palliative Care and Geriat ric medicine. And I would say we weren’t doing training on symptom management, for example. Joe, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. And well skilled.

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Medical Cannabis Revisted: A Podcast with David Casarett and Eloise Theisen

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If you believe the evidence for efficacy to manage symptoms like neuropathic pain, how do you even start to think about recommending these products to patients? And I returned to school to become a nurse practitioner. I’d been a nurse at the time, and I went back to do my clinicals in an oncology clinic locally.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

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In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. Katie, welcome back to GeriPal. Bragging rights. Alex: Yeah. Jessie, welcome back to GeriPal.

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PC for Patients with Substance Use Disorder: Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers

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Why the field is moving away from prescribing methadone to bupenorphine; how to manage patients prescribed methadone for opioid use disorder who then develop serious and painful illness – should we/can we split up the once daily dosing to achieve better pain control? When to consider bupenorphine vs methadone? That’s what we do.

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Normalcy, Introspection, & the Experience of Serious Illness: Bill Gardner, Juliet Jacobsen, and Brad Stuart

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He spent a long time as hospice medical director and he founded a national model of care that many of our listeners will be familiar with, AIM, which stands for the Advanced Illness Management program, which has influenced CMS policy. So she had them early in diagnosis and then a little bit later. You interviewed some geriatricians.

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