GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

So a lot of these patients that I care for are at risk for mortality or poor prognosis in general, and wanting to know how do we still provide them with quality care without giving them too many pricks, too many titrations when it comes to insulin. The long-term repercussions aren’t as big of a deal anymore. It maxes out.

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Diabetes Management Patient-Centered Families 74

GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults. So this is a podcast going at the geriatricians and palliative care providers. Alex: Great story. Eric: And let me ask both of you.

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IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

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?). Eric 00:42 So on this podcast, we’re gonna be talking about what every healthcare provider should know about radiation oncology.

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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. Why focus on the public rather than other health care providers? How do they deal with professional barriers and the barrage of comments? Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

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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. And yet, after assisting the older adult to their feet, the EMS providers would leave. Going into patient’s homes was eye opening. Their job was done.

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Community Transportation IT PCP 116

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. Noelle Marie, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Noelle Marie 00:57 Hi, everyone.

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Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 82

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

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? Eric: Yeah. Does someone else drive you and so forth?”

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IT Families Family Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Panelists David Bekelman, Lyndsay DeGroot, and Diah Martina have no relationships to disclose. With their regular providers? And really learning from them about what kinds of things healthcare might provide, that might be of help to them. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. In their communities?

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Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 123

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

But you worry that the advance directive does not provide enough guidance for the specific decision at Yael Jo, do you. So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. It doesn’t provide enough guidance for the clinicians to make decisions.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 110

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson have no relationships to disclose. What is your relationship? Designation University of California, San Francisco, designates this enduring material for a maximum of 0.75 AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Eric 24:51 Yeah.

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Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 130

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Panelists Elissa Kozlov and Desiree Azizoddin have no relationships to disclose. ” So there’s this combination of it’s hard to build that insight or it’s maybe not as common as we as providers think it is. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 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) ™. She helped them do something about it.

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IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 127

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

JANUARY 20, 2023

Jasmine: It’s an imaginative love story that deconstructs age through an intergenerational friend relationship. To me, I think the Greenhouse folks have proven that you can provide quality care in a home-like environment cost effectively if it’s done right. So I am requesting The Sifters by Andrew Bird. Eric: Can I ask why?

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Finance Board-Certified IT Provider 95

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. I think for families and for other providers who are not trained in that, it’s very hard to predict. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 110

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

Relationships are usually more complicated. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison have no relationships to disclose. You’ve done research on caregivers, too, and the engagement of music and caregivers. There are lots of people involved.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 98

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I must admit, though, sometimes it just feels off… inauthentic, as if it’s not a genuine desire to improve our lives as health care providers, but rather a metric to check off or a desire to improve productivity and billing by making the plight of workers a little less miserable. And that’s how the names have really changed.

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IT Healthcare Healthcare Professional Patient-Centered 112

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Panelists Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin have no relationships to disclose. Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston.

Illness 137

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 137

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Rather, most of us live and make decisions in relationship to one another. But once we realize that almost everybody makes decisions in the context of relationships. And so the family is there in much more of an advisory role rather than providing say, cognitive scaffolding that they might provide in supported decision making.

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Family Families Patient-Centered IT 98

GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

And for many years, I think there was a focus on physicians and then providers. We’ve done work with medical improvised, we’ve done work in museum based education. Gordon 12:01 One absolute right answer to all these questions, and we will provide that. There’s this therapeutic relationship.

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IT Illness Families Family 133

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

And I think the question for our field is, is that because the estimates that we have of GFR based on creatinine provide misrepresentation or an inaccurate representation of someone’s kidney function. But you’re right, there has been a shift in policy to incentivize patients and providers to choose home therapies.

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Management Patient-Centered Patients IT 117

FDA Law Blog

JUNE 8, 2022

Althera Pharmaceuticals, LLC would have been wise to follow this advice in formulating its professional piece for healthcare professionals for ROSZET (rosuvastatin and ezetimibe) tablets, for oral use ( here and here ). It need not be a 1:1 relationship, but it does need to reasonably compare.

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Healthcare Professional Relationship IT Education 52

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Jerry: Probably for the reason a lot of people go into geriatrics, close relationship with grandparents, volunteered to work in a nursing home as a high school student, just felt really good about being around old people and not having a problem with it. Graduated in 2013, did a two-year clinician educator track. How long ago?

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Board-Certified IT Community Medical Student 91

GeriPal

MAY 18, 2023

So the intention of the AGS Beers Criteria is to provide information primarily to clinicians, although to other audience as well, but medications that we consider to be potentially inappropriate in older adults. But it does kind of provide that caution, it kind of slows things down to make sure you’re really paying attention.

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Medical IT Patients Clinic 97

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Check out some of their recent work, including: Dr. Holt-Lunstad’s and Dr. Perissinotto’s powerful perspective piece in the New England Journal of Medicine which provides a clinical framework for addressing loneliness and social isolation. But then recognizing that our relationships impact our health even outside the context of stress.

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IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 100

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

And so I let him educate me. Potentially harmful elements of that coping mechanism for your relationship with your four year old. And if you look what they did early on, the very first things were relationship rapport building and how was somebody coping with their illness? I sort of called out the coping. Amanda 32:36 Yeah.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 126

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

So usually they’ll make recommendations, maybe some medication adjustments or something like that, and then the provider that’s caring for them in house will take over from there. So the palliative care service doesn’t necessarily need to provide those potentially. Some will have stronger relationships with hospice.

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Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

We are delighted to welcome Jane Euler, who is lead doula and co-founder of Present for You, which is a benefit LLC company that provides doula support at the end-of-life. We are doulas for those with serious illness and those at end-of-life, just a longitudinal relationship, nonmedical support to provide presence. Jane: Right.

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Provider Illness IT Healthcare 119

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

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. link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. Today we discuss: What is the best terminology?

Healthcare 102

Healthcare IT Community Illness 102

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Laurie Dornbrand has no relationships to disclose. Eric: And Laurie for this patient, were you the outpatient provider? Bernie Lo discloses being an Honorarium Recipient and consultant for Takeda starting on 01/23/2024. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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Families Family Patient-Centered IT 113

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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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

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

MAY 8, 2025

7 out of 10 of these patients said it was one of the top five most educational and meaningful experiences of their entire lives. So when they do meet it, how are you going to be in relationship to it? Some of them also had psychiatric or psychosocial oncology providers as well. Do you educate them not to drive?

Illness 109

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 109

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it. We weren’t randomizing providers or patients. The one thing that we know is that education alone will not actually deliver behavior change. That’s not news to us.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 78

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

But, you know, I’ve talked to a lot of palliative care providers, a lot of people caring for people with serious illness. 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. Julia 11:02 Yeah.

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Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 74