GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

But I think people would have an embolic event if you gave them a flipping range. The chart that I have in my book and that I use in practice and so many healthcare systems have adopted already, is the very best, cutting edge data we have. Really, the best chart would be 10 milligrams of IV morphine is 20 to 30 of oral morphine.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

It’s Lona Mody who is a translational infectious disease researcher at the University of Michigan and VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Devika Nair, who is a nephrologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee Valley VA Healthcare System. Our first guest is a repeat guest.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary We recently published a podcast on palliative care for kidney failure, focusing on conservative kidney management. Today we’re going to focus upstream on the decision to initiate dialysis vs conservative kidney management. For example, with peritoneal dialysis and conservative management.

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My Green Doctor

MAY 29, 2025

The EIB developed a first-of-its-kind tool to quantify how climate hazards like heatwaves, floods, and poor air quality will drive up healthcare demand across Europe. In the United States, extreme weather events and air pollution are already costing the healthcare system over $820 billion annually. So what’s the path forward?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

On today’s podcast, we talk with Jane Thomas , Naomi Saks , and Ishwaria Subbiah about the concepts of wellness, well-being, resilience, and burnout, as well as what can be done to truly improve the lives of healthcare providers and bring, I dare say it, joy into our work. For a team that’s tagged with professional.

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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

JULY 11, 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

MARCH 6, 2025

-Alex End Well Talk [link] Resources on the PEACH Program Program Review Paper A recent publication in Longwoods Healthcare Quarterly reviewing the PEACH model. I always knew that I wanted to get into healthcare, to use healthcare as a springboard for social change in our communities. Have you thought about that?

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

Just encourage patients and families to bring music into their healthcare experience. Our volunteers are starting to take over ownership of this program, so we’re kind of like building a team to help kind of maintain it, manage it, and make sure that everything’s on the up and up with it. And it has a great impact.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

People’s goals are often much more than, you know, perfect management or heart failure, even living as long as possible. One of our first podcasts, over 300 podcasts ago, was with Nate Goldstein, who studies heart failure management in older adults, and particularly older adults nearing the end of life. Was it sodium hf?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

It’s Lona Mody who is a translational infectious disease researcher at the University of Michigan and VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Devika Nair, who is a nephrologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee Valley VA Healthcare System. Our first guest is a repeat guest.

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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 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 8, 2024

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Pain Manag Nurs. Usually events open up some insight into the person themselves as they’re describing the suffering. 2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004. 2023.11.004. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38129210. Kleinman, A.

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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. I think we’re probably managing sicker patients on the floor.

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GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

So if you haven’t been to this event, there is a literature review where we. Ken 12:14 I’ll remind you, Nancy, that this is an honor for companies that manage to make lots of money despite having a product that’s worthless or doesn’t. Alex, you’ve probably penned about 50 songs, which is also amazing.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

And I was really excited just to learn how to manage these patients, because in the patients in geriatrics clinic that we see, fractures just can be so devastating and result in loss of independence. So these are really relevant outcome events. But how long does it take until you see those events? James: Yeah. Eric: All right.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families. They supported patients, they gave them a holding environment, they did symptom management, yada, yada, yada, like all the things we know palliative care clinicians do.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

And so for pt, we’re generally focused on assistance with transfers, providing assistive devices to help people maintain independence with ambulation, doing stairs, leaving their homes, getting into the community, but really focusing on symptom management. Hospitals should routinely collect functional information in the same way.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Alex Smith Links Link to the McGill National Grand Rounds Series on Palliative Care , Michael Kearney as initial presenter, and registration for future events. You’re talking about a paradigm shift in healthcare. A good prescriber, a good symptom control manager. Ive got a name. No, you dont need to be Canadian.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

We invited three geriatricians and memory care doctors, Nate Chin, Sharon Brangman, and Jason Karlawish, to talk about this question and many others swirling around on how to safely prescribe these drugs and manage patients on them (like what to do about anticoagulation). I would look at their functional ability.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Alex 06:20 Can I what’s the healthcare equivalent to the Starbucks coffee? The events are conditions that’ll be set into place unless some active choice to the contrary is chosen. Inside or outside of healthcare? Eric 06:19 Oh yeah. Eric 06:24 Yeah. So that’s by far the best studied. Would you guess?

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Should she be treated non-operatively, with aggressive symptom management? What does it mean for functional status, symptom management, location of care? I mean, financially, the bulk of the American healthcare system is a fee-for-service system. Joel: I’ll come into that in a second. Samir: Unequivocally, unequivocally.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

We start off part one by interviewing Michele DiTomas, who has been the longstanding Medical Director of the Hospice unit and currently is also the Chief Medical Executive for the Palliative care Initiative with the California Correctional Healthcare Services. These older patients are costing a ton in healthcare costs. Michele: Yep.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The problem is, that’s actually not a very good narrative for nearly everything we take care of in healthcare. I just was going to jump in and say that I think, in surgical training, the focus is, obviously, on the technical aspects and how do you do the surgery and how do you manage somebody both pre- and post-operatively.

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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

DECEMBER 7, 2023

And so any additional stressor such as heat or an extreme weather event or having to move from your home because of a climate related disaster can really tax an older adult whose window of resilience is more limited. So the things that Karl mentioned, but also access to healthcare during a disaster or even heat. Ruth: Yeah. Ruth: Yeah.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

You’d imagine though that our professional expertise and experiences in helping patients and families cope with loss and grief would be helpful in managing our own personal losses. These debriefings create a safe outlet for health care professionals to talk about the feelings resulting from their work. Turns out, it’s maybe not.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Eric 23:45 Yeah, I love that, too, because I think that one for me really is, can our interventions need to target the patient population that we’re managing? It’s not just about physical symptom management. You sort of had a month after all of those events. No, I think it was a great trial. Palliative care.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Started as a direct case manager, worked in a variety of different places including the state legislature and I’ve been with the state office now since 2006. Really, to be a bridge between whether it’s a health plan on the healthcare side, Greg mentioned a hospital discharge, which is so common. Eric: And Susan?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 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

APRIL 21, 2022

Look also for a forthcoming article by Mike and Redwing in Journal of Pain and Symptom Management on poetry as a healing modality, to be published mid May (will add link when out). That’s coming out in JP… Redwing: JPSM, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, yeah. ” Alex: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Alex: May 15th.

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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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GeriPal

JULY 25, 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

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Because those experiments show that the actor being targeted, lipids for example, is part of the causal pathway to an undesired event. I do think that creates a little bit of disquiet where the borders between the expert physicians will decide what is a disease, freed of all conflicts, simply is a historical event. Jason: Yeah.

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