GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Judy Long, MDiv, BCC , palliative care chaplain and educator at UCSF and caregiver. I think … There’s so few, seriously, from the hospital system and the pathologizing systems to the more social care intervention work that Susan and I really do. I think Ab sees that a lot. I think the inclusivity matters. But we have to.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

And so a lot of it’s the education for patients and their care partners, “This is why we’re doing the things we’re doing. Are clinicians adequately trained and educated about signs and symptoms of that right balance of knowing when to change the whole medication regimen? Nadine: No poking and prodding.

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Diabetes Management Patient-Centered Family 73

GeriPal

JULY 27, 2023

Alex: And we have Cathy Alessi, who is a geriatrician, Director of the Geriatrics Research Education and Clinical Care Center at the VA, greater Los Angeles and Professor of Medicine at UCLA. Eric: And anything else from the history or the physical that’s going to help you around the differential of the sleep problem? Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

During my training, I didn’t receive much education about radiation oncology, and I’m not entirely sure what some of the terms mean (hypofractionated means fewer sessions, right?). The physics and mathematics that went into radiation therapy planning. Eric 04:49 Drew me to the field physics and math. Anish 04:13 Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. They were stunned by the number of calls for lift assistance for older adults who had fallen. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Carmen: Thank you. Carmen: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

all of whom focus their efforts on educating the general public about living and dying with a serious illness. How you actually physically started doing this and built up so many followers over time and why are you doing it? Designation University of California, San Francisco, designates this enduring material for a maximum of 0.75

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The Motivated MD

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

In medicine, it is commonly agreed that ‘to err is human’ Most healthcare professionals would agree that humans make mistakes. From the moment you start post-graduate education (internship and residency), this is seen as a physician’s first ‘real job.’ So yes, humans make mistakes.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Physical therapy had walked with him that day and noted improvement compared to previous walks, suggesting that he should be discharged to a skilled nursing facility for rehabilitation on discharge. At the end of the day, I lamented that physical, occupational, and speech therapists aren’t more tightly integrated with palliative care teams.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Today we talk with DorAnne Donesky, Michelle Milic, Naomi Saks, & Cara Wallace about the notion that we should revolutionize our education programs, training programs, teams, incentive structures, and practice to be intentionally interprofessional in all phases. In other words, in addition to being a specialist (e.g. But how about you!

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

You can also listen to an audio interview with Alex and JAMA Deputy Editor Preeti Malani about this study and the other RCT of default palliative care for hospitalized older adults with noncancer serious illness published in the same issue. People had to be in the top 20th percentile of risk for being hospitalized or dying in the next year.

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Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 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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Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

I’ve worked in hospital settings as an occupational therapist, inpatient rehab and outpatient rehab. Emmy: I was seeing people in the hospital setting, saying they had had a massive brain injury. Emmy: Ended up starting a program, outpatient at our hospital at the time. How did you get interested in this? Is this our role?

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IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

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? A music therapist would use music deliberately to achieve a rehabilitation goal, just like a physical therapist or an occupational therapist. Like, it’s like a hospital.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As Thor notes, capturing patient stories has face validity as positively impacting the patients who share their stories and have them documented, and for the clinicians who get to truely and deeply know their patients in far greater depth than “what brought you to the hospital?” Within the VA it’s now at 70 VA hospitals.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. I mean, to me, the Buddhist concept that there are multiple forms of suffering, like there’s the suffering that’s due to pain and physical symptoms. I think there is definitely a place, especially physical. Pain Manag Nurs. 2023.11.004.

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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. Jennifer: They have a meaningful impact on what happens to them during the hospitalization and after. They all self-identified as a hospital based practice.

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

I believe the age range was over 80 hospitalized patients and showed that relatively light level physical activity, often with weights, improved hospital outcomes. So Tim Anderson did a wonderful study looking at hypertensive management in the hospital. And very frail. Eric 29:17 Yeah, so. Alex 29:26 Exactly.

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IT Hospital Screening Patients 64

GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

He uses comics and other artwork to share his experiences in palliative care and educate others about topics like empathy and communication skills. So for those listening to the podcast, this is a clown looking very sad and what looks like a hospital administrator. And then also potentially from an educational standpoint.

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IT Hospital Patients Illness 145

GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. And I spent the past couple years just collecting data from several hundred early palliative care patients and did a network analysis, which basically just looks at the Correlations between different constructs, whether they’re physical, emotional, social or spiritual.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 107

GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. I thought I was going to be a professor or educator, decided I didn’t like that. Within the VA it’s now at 70 VA hospitals. So it’s a very scary culture for people who are not in healthcare. Alex: Yeah.

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Ishwaria 05:29 And that’s really how this field of professional well being, healthcare professional well being, clinician well being, has evolved, is that there is an important place in our overall professional well being for personal resilience and our individual coping strategies, recovery methods from day to day.

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IT Healthcare Healthcare Professional Patient-Centered 110

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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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

And in fact, as Alex mentioned in the intro, probably more than 20 years ago, Muriel Gillig asked me to help out with the geriatric modules at the Brigham women’s hospital primary care medicine sort of sessions. Because I also feel like we target people’s low sodium diets in the hospital. Alex 04:47 Probably was, yeah.

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Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

MAY 26, 2022

Emily: And so even in the pandemic, we’ve seen circumstances like this where hospitals wrote allocation policies that were going to give preference to frontline healthcare workers in hopes, right, that they would incentivize them to stay on the job knowing that they would be taken care of and because they had been working for the public good.

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Vaccination IT Individual Healthcare 87

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Kate: It was done in 10 hospitals, 17 ICUs in Atrium Health down in North Carolina. Asking clinicians to document prognosis did not change the primary outcome of hospital length of stay or really any of the secondary outcomes, which I’ll get into. Also the same hospital system? That’s when they got enrolled.

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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. Lona: Absolutely.

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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So I would say that a lot of the education we received were on cutting edge research and the latest drugs in clinical trials, the latest cellular therapies that are coming out. And then the duo, physical and cognitive function, those are the seven that… Alex: Oh, that’s a good way of remembering it. I like it, John.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

We’ve done work with medical improvised, we’ve done work in museum based education. Your patients expect you to care for them, their mental well being, their physical well being. Gordon 41:13 The hospital is also on fire. I want you to be able to be in the hospital and be with your loved one. And I want.

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IT Illness Family Families 132

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

On today’s podcast we dive into drivers of invasive procedures and hospitalizations in advanced dementia by talking to some pretty brilliant nursing and nurse practitioner researchers focused on dementia, geriatrics, and palliative care in nursing homes: Ruth Palan Lopez, Caroline Stephens, Joan Carpenter, and Lauren Hunt. Ruth: Thank you.

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Nurse Practitioner Hospital Family Families 60

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

I mean, people who used to be in hospitals are now with quicker DRGs. So, how do we establish standards so that you even get the basic care you need for your cognitive or physical functional issues? Some take care of people who’ve got more healthcare needs, more mental illness, more dementia. I wish we did a better job.

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Community IT Mental Health Medical 97

GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Well, there’s this descriptive phase where there’s a verbal and physical examination and the conditions discussed, and then, procedures are discussed. You may not see the big picture, like treating somebody with advanced dementia by hospitalizing them and starting antibiotics for aspiration pneumonia and potentially a peg tube.

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IT Family Families Patient-Centered 128

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Kate and Ashwin talked about their research on the prevalence of lifetime trauma and its association with physical and psychosocial health among adults at the end of life. And we often do, as healthcare providers, care for people who are going through traumatic events, through just being sick in the hospital or a home or dying at home.

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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. Naheed 07:33 Yeah.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

On the other hand, all of our guests agree that chaplains are often the most vulnerable to being cut from hospital and health system budgets. Practice-PC is an intentionally interprofessional and cutting edge year-long group continuing education course in palliative care for working professionals from all disciplines, in the Bay Area.

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IT Patient-Centered Family Families 99

GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Here are a couple of articles if you want to do a deeper dive: Dani and colleagues article on Psychiatry and Palliative Care: Growing the Interface Through Education. To learn more about the ZSFGH Division of Hospital Medicine, please click here. ** This podcast is not CME eligible. For more details, please click here. (AP

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Illness Mental Health IT Patient-Centered 101

GeriPal

JANUARY 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

APRIL 13, 2023

And so I was really thinking about why are some of my people that are hospitalized doing better than others? The idea of listening with your ear, so E being educate, A, assess, and R, respond. The educate is really about these are the risk factors, and they are significant. I want to let Carla also speak to some of this, too.

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