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. Alex: Here, I thought it was just like a relationship tension and breakup song. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Brienne. Cathy: Thank you.

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Illness IT Clinic Medical 85

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. So I think education is key.

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Patient-Centered Referral Patients IT 103

GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

all of whom focus their efforts on educating the general public about living and dying with a serious illness. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Matt Tyler, Sammy Winemaker and Hsien Seow have no relationships to disclose. Julie McFadden discloses an employee relationship started on 15Apr2024.

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Education IT Illness Healthcare 128

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. Panelists Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates have no relationships to disclose. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Carmen: Thank you. Carmen: Yeah.

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Community Transportation IT PCP 116

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson have no relationships to disclose. So it tends to be future oriented and tends to show up as a physical sensation in our body. But it’s this physical sensation that comes along with these ideations. Eric 24:51 Yeah.

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Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 130

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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Screening IT Families Family 121

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

** Claim your CME credit for EP297 “The Nature of Suffering” [link] Note : If you have not already registered for the annual CME subscription ( cost is $100 for a year’s worth of CME podcasts ), 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.

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IT Families Family Physicals 137

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Or somebody who has other physical cognitive problems at any age. Because how that is approached can have lasting effects on relationships, unfortunately. Eric: But before we jump into talking to your patients about driving retirement cessation, let’s talk about what is the role of the healthcare professional in this at all?

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IT Families Family Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Alex 00:41 And we’re delighted to welcome Noelle Marie Javier, who goes by “she” “her” and is a geriatrician and palliative care doc professor, newly minted – c ongratulations – And a clinician educator at Mount Sinai in New York City. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. And great to meet Jace on here.

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Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 82

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

A music therapist would use music deliberately to achieve a rehabilitation goal, just like a physical therapist or an occupational therapist. He’s bringing in, like, a physical record player, but now also in hospice units as well, they’re bringing out music players with headphones. I am not a board certified.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 98

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Panelists David Bekelman, Lyndsay DeGroot, and Diah Martina have no relationships to disclose. And I love the podcast that we did because it really highlights… We pride ourselves in palliative care, and focusing on physical, psychological, social, and spiritual suffering. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Eric: Yeah.

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Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 123

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, early childhood education, all of those things help of people who are younger because when they get older, that matters as well. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Alex: I think those are great.

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IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 127

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Panelists Elissa Kozlov and Desiree Azizoddin have no relationships to disclose. A lot of those symptoms of depression can also be attributed to different kinds of physical symptoms. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 123

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 112

GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

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. Sorry, Demoralization and chronic pain. The flight instructions.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 109

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. And so it’s just a lot of repetitive conversations about their goals with as much education on what this looks like. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

Patient-Centered 110

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 110

GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

We’ve done work with medical improvised, we’ve done work in museum based education. 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. Anne 26:34 Yes.

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IT Illness Families Family 133

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

I initially got into it because I was really looking at the psychophysiology of stress, and so how stress affects our health and how relationships were always a component of that. But then recognizing that our relationships impact our health even outside the context of stress. I want to let Carla also speak to some of this, too.

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IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 100

GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Unpacking characteristics of spirituality through the lens of persons of colour living with serious illness: The need for nurse-based education to increase understanding of the spiritual dimension in healthcare. I thought I was going to be a professor or educator, decided I didn’t like that. Tell me about your illness.

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Patient-Centered Illness Healthcare IT 116

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

And I think one key part is educating the field, not just my fellow cardiologists, but also primary care doctors, geriatricians, that there’s this heart failure syndrome that is kind of sneaky, and it’s kind of difficult to diagnose any. They may have a long relationship with that cardiologist, so it requires some collaboration.

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Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 114

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

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. Lexy: The domains were meaning and purpose, relationships, transcendence and peace, and self-worth and identity, and we developed those.

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IT Patient-Centered Families Family 99

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.

Patient-Centered 130

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 130

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

And as a resident, I just was drawn, similar to many oncology clinicians and fellows, to just be traumatic and difficult experience of patients with blood cancers during prolonged and intense hospitalizations, where they experience a lot of physical symptoms, emotional trauma related to the diagnoses. Alex: Okay.

Illness 111

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 111

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Just out of fellowship, Naheed built a palliative care program for homeless persons called the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless (PEACH) Program. He’s the founder and leader of the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless program in Toronto, Palliative care physician at St. Naheed 07:33 Yeah.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 102

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. Because just like in the bedside space, if you are using humor in a way that builds bonds and relationships with the patient can be really beautiful, and normalizing. Nathan: Yeah.

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IT Hospital Patients Illness 145

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Eduardo Bruera has no relationships to disclose. But what I tell them is, keep yourself physically active. Keep yourself physically as active as possible. Designation University of California, San Francisco, designates this enduring material for a maximum of 0.75

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Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 134

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. Physical symptoms like pain, dyspnea, fatigue, psychological symptoms, depression, loneliness, and then some of the social experiences as well, like social isolation.

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IT Patient-Centered Individual Screening 67

GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Tell me how your illness has impacted your relationships with others, your healthcare team, your family, friends, your beliefs, your values, your preferences. I thought I was going to be a professor or educator, decided I didn’t like that. ” I asked the student, “Did you find legs on your physical exam?”

IT 106

IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 106

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) ™.

Illness 144

Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

And so often, like, if you have a good relationship with them and you can understand what that root is, there’s so many other ways to come at it and they’re willing to back away. It’s like a third of people need chemical or physical restraints to keep that in. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 79

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And it bothers me how the nurses are there, the physical therapists are there, some of the social workers are there. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck have no relationships to disclose. But I do find among our house staff, the time for reflection is not there.

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Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

There’s education available and a lot of programs available that can give you self-help. He might want to write his mom and he’s not physically able to write anymore. Religion is important to me and my relationship with God has got stronger since I’ve been working here. He’s got a couple AA degrees.

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IT Families Family Board-Certified 97

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

It’s about establishing a relationship and rapport. We did not just rely on a physical symptom measure, which many of our colleagues are doing. It’s not just about physical symptom management. It’s about instilling coping skills. But it’s a very different model. It’s about coping.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 120

GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

-@AlexSmithMD Additional links: JAMA paper on clinical research risks, climate change, and health Geriatric medicine in the era of climate change Health Care Without Harm: [link] Practice Green Health: [link] Global Consortium for Climate and Health Education: [link] Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric Widera.

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Healthcare IT Education Hospital 130

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Wait, so one key message is that social health is linked to physical and cognitive health?!? 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. And health shocks.

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Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 63

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

And that really is what prompted me to get certified as a sexual education provider. There is a patient caregiver relationship that evolves over time, and there’s less of a focus on intimacy in that relationship. It sits at the intersection of emotion, interpersonal, physical, psychological, cultural.

Illness 131

Illness IT Physicals Patients 131

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. So how physically active the patient is, how much time they spend awake, how much they’re eating, how much care they need, that type of thing. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 108