GeriPal

JULY 27, 2023

For those with serious illness, sleep problems and insomnia are all too common. 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. Insomnia sucks. Chronic insomnia sucks even more. Is that right?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Next, we turn to Emily McDonald, the director of the Canadian Medication Appropriateness and Deprescribing Network , to discuss her study on the impact of direct-to-consumer educational brochures on gabapentin deprescribing. Additionally, clinicians participated in monthly educational sessions. in the usual care group.

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Specialization IT Patient-Centered Medical 120

GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Screening for addressing hearing loss should be an integral part of what we do in geriatrics and palliative care, but it often is either a passing thought or completely ignored. We talk with Nick and Meg about: Why hearing loss is important not just in geriatrics but also for those caring for seriously ill individuals.

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IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

We then walk through how we should screen for anxiety and how we should think about a differential. I have so many questions, and I promise we’re going to get to the management of anxiety and serious illness. Because it can be important to think about how people are coping with their illness. How are they feeling?

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GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

We’ll discuss three recent clinical trials involving patients with serious illness, joined by our guests James Downar , Ali John Zarrabi , and Margaret Ross. We’re going to be talking about new research in psilocybin in serious illness. Margaret 22:45 So the eligibility was that they had to have a life threatening illness.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 109

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

After discussing screening options for substance use disorder, we go on to talk about both the treatments for it and the issues that arise. Eric: And Alex, we’re going to be talking about substance use disorder and serious illness and aging, with three amazing experts. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Devon, welcome to GeriPal.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 137

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

As she said, when you think about the hardest patients you’ve cared for, in nearly all cases there was some aspect of psychological illness involved. Today we talk with two psychologists who are deeply invested in addressing psychological aspects of care for people living with serious illness. That rings true to me. That’s a lot.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life.

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The Physicians Foundation

MAY 20, 2025

The Physicians Foundation announces the 2025 recipient of the Drivers of Health (DOH) Fellowship Program, urges physicians to screen patients for DOH BOSTON, May 21, 2025 – Today, The Physicians Foundation reinforces its efforts to help physicians address drivers of health (DOH) to improve a person’s overall health. As the U.S.

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Chronic Disease Screening Transportation Patient-Centered 40

GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

Two of our guests today, Stacy Fischer and Brian Anderson, are involved in large multicenter trials of psychedelics for patients with advanced cancer (Fischer) or life-limiting illness (Anderson). And some people in studies and just in clinical use have found that to be helpful, including for patients with serious illness.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

How should we screen for cognitive impairment? Who do you think we should be screening and how should we be screening them for these symptoms? Well, so I guess it depends on what you say screening. That screening influences kind of further treatment, actually, probably more importantly, patient outcomes.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

GeriPal post on “fast food” style palliative care in chronic critical illness. I had it on my screen. Areej: So when I was in college, I had a close friend who had a serious illness and actually died as a result of cancer. Additional links: Editorial on Areej’s study. Palliative care in lung and GI cancers. Transcript.

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 111

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Love to talk about also in the serious illness population. Emmy: So that older person or person with maybe terminal illness or developing impairments, it might make sense for them to just keep driving because they don’t have a good replacement. We and many others have tried to come up with a short, validated screening tool.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Many older adults lose decision-making capacity during serious illnesses, and a significant percentage lack family or friends to assist with decisions. And then the process of having a guardian and then trying to have that guardian ultimately removed is a difficult one for a patient who’s seriously ill.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 110

FDA Law

MARCH 13, 2023

Reflecting on our experiences with EL-PFDD meetings and other forms of patient engagement, the April 13th meeting, Clinical Trials : The Patient Experience , promises to continue the education of all of us on the patient experience with, and preferences for, gene therapies and their clinical trials.

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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. Eric: I’m looking forward to talking about art and humor in palliative care and we’re caring for seriously ill patients. His work has been published in places like the L.A.

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IT Hospital Patients Illness 145

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The illness narratives suffering, healing, and the human condition. We’re done with that, so now what we do is we encourage our friends, our colleagues, to screen for spiritual need, one or two questions that help them identify distress and help them know what to do with those, not, “Would you like to see a chaplain.”

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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. It is a screening? In addition to that long list, I was also a chaplain educator. It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

nursing homes grapple with serious illnesses, and roughly half experience dementia. The reason that you’re in a nursing home is because you have some mix of serious illness and multimorbidity, usually functional impairments. We can’t possibly provide enough care to all people with serious illness. right there.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

We also explored several questions with them, including how to define trauma, its prevalence in older adults, the impact of past traumatic experiences, the potential triggers of trauma screening, and the application of trauma-informed principles in clinical practice. Kate 11:33 Yeah, I mean, definitely more indirect pathways than direct.

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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. You might see me on the TV screens next year. Well, todays guests love music at least as much if not more than me, and they each make a strong case for music as medicine. So I’m, I’m, I might be. Eric 35:35 This is the.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 98

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. Like I said, the patient screened positive for it. Ashwin Kotwal: Oh, wow.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 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

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And so we worked closely with a community advisory group who, through focus groups, told us how it was that black and white individuals with serious illness had wanted to be treated. They wanted you to be respectful of their cultural beliefs and their, you know, faith beliefs that were driving their health and illness. Marie 11:03 Yes.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

I can remember two instances of storytelling in training or in education, I guess. And for about five years, my mom was declining from a dementia illness, we think something Parkinsonian. Alex 07:35 Can I interject here? When I was a UCSF med student a quarter century ago, I was behind by a quarter century. But not exactly sure.

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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 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

MAY 1, 2025

Older adults may not have received AIDS education. Eric 18:59 What is the recommendation currently for HIV screening in older adults or in non older adults? I mean, that’s an important element of people with chronic illness coming to the end of life anyway. Meredith 17:07 Yes. You know, those age limits have been removed.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

These screening measures help identify conditions in their earliest stages. From childhood vaccinations to adult boosters and seasonal flu shots, immunizations prevent millions of illnesses annually. They have eradicated or dramatically reduced many diseases that once caused widespread suffering and death.

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Preventative Care Preventive Care Family Physician Screening 100

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

Eric: We’re going to be talking about telemedicine for those who have serious illness, and this came out of a recent publication Carly did in the San Francisco Chronicle titled Telemedicine Helps People in Pain, Don’t Take That Away. So we’re going to be talking about telemedicine, telehealth for people with serious illness.

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GeriPal

JULY 16, 2024

We talk about positive aspects of aging, cognitive screening, the line between legitimate concerns and ageism, ableism, advice for a geriatrician asked to comment on TV, frailty and physical disability, images in the press , historical situations including , and an upper age limit for the Presidency, among other issues. Louise 32:50 Right.

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