GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests George Kuchel & Alison Huang have no relationships to disclose. On our last podcast about urinary incontinence the song request was, “Let it go.” This time around several suggestions were raised. Eric suggested, “Even Flow,” by Pearl Jam. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Clinic 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. How to screen for hearing loss. I’m guessing not. Communication techniques we can use when talking to individuals with hearing loss. Meg: Thank you very much.

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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. Summary Transcript Summary Insomnia. We’ve all had it.

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Illness IT Clinic Medical 85

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. Show me your scars.” Scars, really? I’ve been there. You probably have too.

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Screening IT Family Families 119

The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 4, 2024

During this episode, we hear from Zahra Khan, an educator and editor who has written extensively on abolition in medicine, and Dr. Sayantani DasGupta, a physician-educator, prolific children’s book author and faculty at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University.

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Community Education Patient-Centered Relationship 52

GeriPal

JUNE 23, 2022

Cancer screening is designed to detect slow growing cancers that on average take 10 years to cause harm. The benefits of mammography breast cancer screening rise with age, peak when women are in their 60s, and decline thereafter. Summary Transcript Summary. Mara keeps working at it, and the more she works, the closer we are to fine.

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Screening PCP PCP IT 99

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Panelists Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates have no relationships to disclose. Going into patient’s homes was eye opening. There were trip hazards, loose carpets, some people were hoarders. And yet, after assisting the older adult to their feet, the EMS providers would leave. Their job was done. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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Community Transportation IT PCP 114

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. Panelists Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin have no relationships to disclose. Designation University of California, San Francisco, designates this enduring material for a maximum of 0.75

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

We then walk through how we should screen for anxiety and how we should think about a differential. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson have no relationships to disclose. Summary Transcript Summary “Anxiety is a lot like a toddler. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 129

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Panelists David Bekelman, Lyndsay DeGroot, and Diah Martina have no relationships to disclose. Designation University of California, San Francisco, designates this enduring material for a maximum of 0.75 AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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Patient-Centered Illness IT Patients 122

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Panelists BJ Miller and Naomi Saks have no relationships to disclose. Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Pain Manag Nurs. 2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004. Designation University of California, San Francisco, designates this enduring material for a maximum of 0.75

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IT Family Families Physicals 137

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Analyzing the Health and Retirement Study, she found 60% of older adults screened positive for depression in the last year of life (related study here ). Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Panelists Elissa Kozlov and Desiree Azizoddin have no relationships to disclose. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

This is not highly scripted orchestral music, people, its Jazz. -S And I was fortunate to record an episode of my medical mixtape with Tyler at the w hich meeting were we at, Tyler ? Tyler 01:12 AHPM. We were in Denver. Alex 01:15 AHPM. So check that episode out. Check all the episodes out. It’s a terrific podcast, Tyler. Welcome, Tyle r.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 96

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

We’re going to be talking about the American Geriatric Society position statement on making medical treatment decisions. Alex 02:21 For Eric 02:21 For unrepresented older adults. But before we go into that topic, Tim, I think you have a song request. Tim 02:29 Yeah, it’s such an honor to make a song request. Can you guys do that one?

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 109

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Because I don’t think we think about that so much in palliative care, but we do in geriatrics. But I believe before we start, somebody has a song request for Alex. Is it you, Emmy? Emmy: It is. Eric: What’s the song? Emmy: I just forgot the name of the song… [laughter]. Alex: Pink Cadillac by Bruce Springsteen? I like that song.

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Family Families IT Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary The comprehensive geriatric assessment is one of the cornerstones of geriatrics. But does the geriatric assessment do anything? Does it improve outcomes that patients, caregivers, and clinicians care about? We talk about: What is a practical geriatric assessment and how can busy oncologists actually do one? Thank you.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

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

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 begin with a refresher on psilocybinwhat it is, how it might work, what conditions it may help treat (including demoralization), and how its typically administered. It’s there.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 107

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. Welcome back, Ashwin. Ashwin Kotwal: Excited to be back. Eric: Now, it’s interesting. Was hoping to hear Hey, Ya by OutKast. Alex: Great. All right.

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IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 99

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? -Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year.

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Patient-Centered IT Family Families 99

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. I’m going to share my screen and we can talk about that. And I’m just going to explain it to our listeners, what I’m seeing on my screen. Graphic Novels.

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IT Hospital Patients Illness 145

The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Screening for substance use and offering connections to treatment and community-based services are important strategies that clinicians can implement in their own practice today. One example that is presented involves the complicated relationship between the United States and Chinese immigrants and farmworkers in California.

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Community Patient-Centered Mental Health Board-Certified 52

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Cari 01:42 I would like to request Hallelujah, one of my favorite songs. And I love hearing you sing, and so it’s an excuse to have you sing a beautiful song. And it’s, I think, a very uplifting song. And I’m so pleased with Connie and that she’s doing so well, and so it’s a celebration of her, too. No problem.

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Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Panelists Kate Courtright and Scott Halpern have no relationships to disclose. First, in our editorial, we expressed concern about the length of stay metric not being patient centric, though important for health systems focused on cost savings. It was refreshing to hear Scott and Kate express similar sentiments. Much more to come.

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Consulting Hospital Patient-Centered IT 120

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. Mariah, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Mariah 00:29 Glad to be here.

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Patient-Centered IT Screening Individual 66

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

I had it on my screen. Jennifer’s study is most widely known for the “kicker” – not only did it improve quality of life, palliative care was associated with a couple months longer survival. . Areej’s study is remarkably novel in that it is, to our knowledge, the first study of palliative care during curative treatment. . Areej: Wow.

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

So I think just as much as we focus on the science and the evidence, it’s important to think about the art of how we apply that to people and the relationships and all of the great fun stuff, the stories that unfold in the exam room alongside the science itself. We answered the survey and handed it in. Eric 00:18 Throwing us off.

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IT Community Patients Family 107

GeriPal

MAY 29, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Have any of you watched the movie The Notebook ? At the end, one of the characters, who has dementia, experiences an episode of lucidity. When I watched it, between tears (Im a complete softie) I remember thinking, Oh no! This will give people false hope! That their loved one is in there. Andrew 00:42 Hey, everyone.

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Family Families IT Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

From just the abstracts we had so many questions. We covered some of our questions on the podcast, others you can ponder on your own or in your journal clubs, including: Maries tele/video palliative care intervention was tailored/refined with the help of a community advisory board. Which is it? Whos got the right of it? We’ll see. Have to see.

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Consulting Community Patient-Centered Family 63

GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

We discuss, among other things: Findings that in several studies AI was rated by patients as more empathetic than human clinicians (not less, that isn’t a typo). Turns my concern about lack of empathy from AI on its head – the AI may be more empathetic than clinicians, not less. ” Eric: What was it called again, Wachter’s World?

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Electronics IT Patients Healthcare 139

GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary To my teenagers, climate change is an existential crisis. It’s the end of the world as we know it. They decry the lack of serious attention and prioritization this issue has in the US. My kids ask – why don’t adults care about this issue the same way that they and their friends care about it? This is Eric Widera.

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Healthcare IT Education Hospital 129

GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston have no relationships to disclose. Summary Transcript Summary What is a healthy diet and how much does it really matter that we try to eat one as we age? AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Eric 01:20 Why are you embarrassed?

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IT Diabetes Chronic Disease Patient-Centered 116

GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

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. The impossiblity which is life, which is everything, and death, which is the end of life.

Patient-Centered 93

Patient-Centered IT Community Illness 93

GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

Meredith wore a shirt that said Silence=death. Eric gave me the hook during my live cover of One, by U2, a song released in 1992 whose proceeds went entirely to AIDS research. I couldnt help it, forgive me dear listeners, I had to do a longer than usual cut at the start! But this song was actually a fundraiser for AIDS when it was released.

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Primary Care IT Provider Clinic 94

Medical Xpress

JUNE 8, 2025

This research can inform future beach safety strategies and educational initiatives." The research, published this week in Safety Science , collected data from 562 recreational surfers from 2020 to 2023. This study helps to quantify surfers impact on community safety.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

These screening measures help identify conditions in their earliest stages. Cancer Screenings Cancer screenings stand out as especially important preventive health care examples due to their ability to detect cancer at pre-symptomatic stages when treatment is most successful.

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Preventive Care Preventative Care Family Physician Screening 100

GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

Let me start by quote/paraphrasing one of today’s guests, Mara Buchbinder, who puts her finger on the issue we talk about today: . Typically when we think about conscience in medical ethics we think about it in terms of a negative claim of conscience, where a clinician refuses (or objects) to provide care. I got it the second time. Okay, good.

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