GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The SAMHSA defines trauma as an event, series events or set of circumstances experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening, with lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional or spiritual. So there’s an event or a series of events.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. So they can be referred by their primary care doctor or to us. You can choose comfort-focused care or you can choose to continue chemotherapy. Michele: Yep.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

It was like kind of a co op with this common space that different groups could rent for events and meetings and things like that. And I was interviewing candidates for our clinical fellowship and interviewed Alexis, who had been like family medicine doc before, done all kinds of cool things. There was a living room that you could rent.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And then, the family, her kids got together, my wife and her brother and sister got together and said, wait a minute, mom did not want this, right? There’s not been literature that I’m aware of that demonstrates how much of this is sort of goal concordant care or not. She has advance dementia. They would be horrified.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. GeriPal podcast with Linda Fried on frailty.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

And I think that’s what’s important for families to know because everyone wants to stop this disease and roll back the clock to make their loved one better. But all of this has to be understood by the patient and the families and so that they’re comfortable of that. Remember, family member. It’s coherent.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

He’s the founder and leader of the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless program in Toronto, Palliative care physician at St. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome for the first time, guest Bill Ander e ch, who’s a primary care internist and senior scholar in Sutter Health’s program in M edicine and Human Values, a program that he co-founded with a former UCSF faculty member, Al Johnson. So in some ways, it was an iatrogenic event.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

Sometime after the age of 50, we could identify an event where the folks who were first homeless before 50, there wasn’t a clear crisis that precipitated it. Folks who were first homeless after 50, there was an event, and usually those events could be described in one of four categories. But nothing in healthcare.

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