GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

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. Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults. My own work focuses on hospitalization and health utilization over time.

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IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

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. And so I knew that I wanted to do something related to palliative care because I work with people with advanced and serious illness.

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Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 132

GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. Participants were critically ill and intubated. P AI R stands for Palliative and Advanced Illness Research Center. What is sludge?

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Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 116

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

And PAIR stands for the Palliative and Advanced Illness Research Center. And, of course, this is what families of patients undergoing palliative care go through. So, Alex, imagine you’re a seriously-ill hospitalized patient and I’m your doctor, unluckily for you. Eric: Utilization, utilization, utilization.

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Consulting Hospital Patient-Centered IT 120

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Those disruptive events or shocks often portend a major decline in function from which people with dementia never fully recover. Today we talk about disruptive events, or health and wealth shocks. So thought it related to our theme of disruptive events about different ways in which you may experience an early demise.

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Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, basically, with a stepped care model, the goal is to tailor care delivery to the patient’s needs while at the same time utilizing less clinician resources. Alex 12:36 And most of our listeners are like clinician, practicing clinicians caring for older adults, people with serious illness. Jennifer 04:25 I can take that on.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

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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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 83