GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary I always find cachexia in serious illness puzzling. In today’s podcast, we had the opportunity to learn from a renowned expert in palliative care, Eduardo Bruera, about cachexia and anorexia in serious illness. When people have no appetite, they know they’re ill. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

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My Green Doctor

JULY 2, 2025

in the need for healthcare—translating into over 500 million extra days of inpatient hospital care and more than 100 million emergency department visits across Europe by 2050. In the United States, extreme weather events and air pollution are already costing the healthcare system over $820 billion annually.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Today we talk with Sarguni Singh, hospitalist-researcher at the University of Colorado, Ann Henshaw, Occupational Therapist who teaches at George Washington and works clinically at Georgetown, and Tamra Keeney, Physical Therapist-researcher at Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Tamra, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

GeriPal post on “fast food” style palliative care in chronic critical illness. 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. Additional links: Editorial on Areej’s study. Palliative care in lung and GI cancers. Transcript.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. Many were community hospitals. Participants were critically ill and intubated. What is sludge? The prognosis nudge did nothing.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The SAMHSA defines trauma as an event, series events or set of circumstances experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening, with lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional or spiritual. So there’s an event or a series of events.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

This week, we talk about the other major palliative care trial of default palliative care consults for hospitalized older adults with COPD, kidney disease, or dementia, published in the same issue of JAMA. And PAIR stands for the Palliative and Advanced Illness Research Center. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. I just go for the gusto.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

Jenny Chen is a palliative care fellow at Yale who regularly sings for her seriously ill patients. When we started doing more music stuff for our patients in the hospital, a lot of people started to think, hmm, what would I want to listen to? So our inpatient hospitals are kind of under resourced for music therapy. That’s.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

We also briefly mention Susan Wong’s terrific studies that found a disconnect between older adults with renal failure’s expressed values, focused on comfort, and their advance care planning and end-of-life care received, which focused on life extension; and another study that found quality of life was sustained until late in the illness course.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michaels Hospital in Toronto, and health justice activist. Just out of fellowship, Naheed built a palliative care program for homeless persons called the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless (PEACH) Program. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

And they should be forced by doing research, followed by translating research into practice and continued education of a wide variety of individuals to then care for our aging population. So transmission of other drug resistant organisms and C difficile to other patients in the hospital reduces if you control. difficile infections.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Two or three decades now, Gretchen, about fix-it language not only in surgery but in a variety of clinical spaces, which really refers to language that portrays illness, really, through a mechanical model. You’re going to be in the hospital for a week, you’re going to feel like crap for, probably, the next two months.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 00:23 All right, first, we’re welcoming back Ricky Le it er, who’s a palliative care doc at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and is co-founder of the Palliative Story Exchange. I can remember two instances of storytelling in training or in education, I guess.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. The illness narratives suffering, healing, and the human condition. Usually events open up some insight into the person themselves as they’re describing the suffering. Pain Manag Nurs. 2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004.

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

But from our clinical work, many of us are familiar with people with dementia who experience sudden shocks to their health, think hip fracture, think hospitalization for pneumonia. Those disruptive events or shocks often portend a major decline in function from which people with dementia never fully recover. worsening prognosis.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

We were often the only ones left in the hospital. Not as a check mark, not as an extra, but making sure that it’s in clinical practice, education, training, and research and DEI and this equity and inclusivity aspect. And I didn’t think I needed to make it better. We went into the rooms. And that was really great.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

He had a 14 month recovery in hospital and rehab and continually asked to have life sustaining treatment suspended so that he could be allowed to die. So she bled a lot and finally called for help and was transferred to the hospital, where she started crashing in the trauma room. She didn’t die in the hospital.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

I wonder if you could say a little bit more about the meta Institute in particular and what it is that clinicians today can do to learn, to be more present and learn about the need to be thoughtful and compassionate in the care that they provide people with serious illness. Frank 08:43 Well, briefly. Where can they go? Home caregivers.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Alex 00:34 We are delighted to welcome back Jennifer Tem e l, who is a thoracic oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Alex 12:36 And most of our listeners are like clinician, practicing clinicians caring for older adults, people with serious illness. Eric 26:47 How soon after from a hospitalization, all.

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

Today we discuss a new paper in JAMA that tests a stripped down version of the clinician only facing intervention in a pragmatic randomized trial for older adults with serious illness and those 80+. Eric and I also reflect on the podcast Randy generously did with us on his experience living with and studying serious illness.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Poetry helps us grapple with our own experiences of illness. We talk not only about reading poetry, but also writing poetry, and using poetry in medical education as a healing modality. She’s a palliative care nurse educator and a writer, and she’s joining us from the great state of Hawaii. Alex: This is Alex Smith.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

The PPS is one of the most widely used prognostic tools for seriously ill patients, but the prognostic estimates given by the PPS are based on data that is well over a decade old. First time on the GeriPal podcast, Liz Lilley, who’s a surgeon and faculty in surgery at the Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

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GeriPal

JULY 16, 2024

Well, you said the key, I think you said the key word, Louise, is that one of the things, I think, that’s often missed in this discussion, and in part, some of the rush to diagnosis, is, in fact, ageist in itself, because it belies the enormous complexity and diversity and heterogeneity we could see in various events. Eric 29:15 Yeah.

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