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 Families 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. Alex: Here, I thought it was just like a relationship tension and breakup song. I think every patient I see in the hospital’s on melatonin.

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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. 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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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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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. Panelists David Bekelman, Lyndsay DeGroot, and Diah Martina have no relationships to disclose.

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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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Screening IT Families Family 119

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. A lot of times I see private sector hospitals saying, “We have mental health covered.

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Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Panelists BJ Miller and Naomi Saks have no relationships to disclose. ” So there’s this element too, of what’s suffering in relationship to others, and can we compare? Pain Manag Nurs. 2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3. 2023.11.004.

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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

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? Eric: Yeah.

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IT Families Family Diagnosis 102

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

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

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. So if one of my patients gets admitted, I also see them on the inpatient side of our hospital. I’m embedded in the ICU in one of our smaller hospitals.

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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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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 132

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 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. Tell me how your illness has impacted your relationships with others, your healthcare team, your family, friends, your beliefs, your values, your preferences. Within the VA it’s now at 70 VA hospitals. Alex: Yeah.

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

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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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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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

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. .” Eric: Well, Carla, can you flush out EAR for me?

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IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 99

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

JUNE 13, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Eduardo Bruera has no relationships to disclose. Eduardo 07:17 Well, we had a palliative care unit in another hospital that was 510 minutes away. But what I tell them is, keep yourself physically active. Keep yourself physically as active as possible.

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Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 133

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

We were often the only ones left in the hospital. But there physically wasn’t the time, and there wasn’t that energy to be able to do everything for. 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.

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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) ™.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

For this weekly treatment, the cancer team that had been consulted in the hospital told him this is nonsense. 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. I knew two things. The first bat.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 77

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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Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

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. 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. Jennifer 00:44 Thanks.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

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. Wait, so one key message is that social health is linked to physical and cognitive health?!? And they’re often a sign of (or cause of?) worsening prognosis.

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Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

There’s education available and a lot of programs available that can give you self-help. Jeff: G1 is a hospital wing. 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.

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IT Families Family Board-Certified 97

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 Community 129

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Alex 00:06 We are delighted to welcome back Areej El-Jawahri, who’s an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who specializes in blood cancers. And that really is what prompted me to get certified as a sexual education provider. Alex 00:03 This is Alex Smith. Eric 00:04 And Alex, who do we have with us today?

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

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. 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. Liz 00:32 Thanks.

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Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

There’s also education that goes with it, educating, like, what does that mean? Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson have no relationships to disclose. Wait, how is that actually defined? AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) .

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