GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We talk about what is heart failure, particularly HFpEF, how we treat it (including the use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2’s), and how we should apply guidelines to individual patients, especially those with multimorbidity who are taking a lot of other medications. When I see a patient?

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

It’s a jampacked 50 minutes, filled with pearls on taking care of patients with liver disease. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson have no relationships to disclose. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. And that piqued my interest.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

If you want a deeper dive, check out the following resources: Our Nature of Suffering podcast with BJ Miller and Naomi Saks Dani Chammas Annals paper on countertransference and why we shouldnt say that the patient was difficult rather than that I felt frustrated. So there’s an event or a series of events. Eric 04:19 Yeah.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

If the purpose of initiating dialysis is improving function – our complex, frail, older patients are likely to be disappointed. Are we seeing people like more older adults, more nursing home patients starting dialysis, and even at a higher gfr? So I wonder if I could turn to either of our nephrologists.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Panelists BJ Miller and Naomi Saks have no relationships to disclose. I think even the word patient, patient, I think, comes from the word suffer, the one who suffers. ” So there’s this element too, of what’s suffering in relationship to others, and can we compare? AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Eric 04:44 Could just make you a little bit more resilient, you can increase your Rvus so you can see more patients. But we can’t lose sight of the system level, the x individual outside of the individual, the system level factors that inform our day to day workplace experience. If you were just.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

However, as noted in our editorial published with the donanemab trial , the modest benefits of amyloid antibodies would likely not be questioned by patients, clinicians, or payers if amyloid antibodies were low risk, inexpensive, and simple to administer. However, they are none of these. Welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Jason.

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GeriPal

MAY 29, 2025

Particularly patients, families. I think we have ideas about are these paradoxical events, are they expected? And I think Andrew’s going to have good ideas about, like, why the term paradoxical and are these events paradoxical, truly? People are patients, families are wondering if their loved one is still in there.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Yes, it means to cloak, but theres more Whole-person-care Total pain Healing as a process distinct from the deterioration of the body Sympomatologists The patient and family as the unit of care Our guests referenced many articles on this podcast, linked above and below. I loved the relationship that we developed and the fun we had.

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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. Eric: And what a research agenda that you’ve done, including one of the most seminal papers that we have in palliative care in lung cancer patients.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

Second, as we discussed in last week’s podcast , older adults, particularly those in nursing homes, were far more likely to die than younger individuals. First, Black and Latinx persons experienced much higher rates of mortality than other groups. I probably should have said GFR. Eric: Yes. I just choose GFR.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

I love this article as it specifically discusses what’s wrong with “ need ” statements and how we can shift our communication and thinking to create space for deliberation about patients’ priorities and the best course of action. And it’s always centered on a need for a particular life-sustaining treatment. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Alex 00:08 UCSF’s Division of Palliative Medicine are looking to build on their research and clinical programs and are interviewing candidates for the associate chief of research position and for full time physician faculty to join them in the in-patient and out-patient settings. Lingsheng 21:45 Now. Wendy, I have.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. By the time he got into us, the tumor grew, he had experienced, he was experiencing significant pain and so trauma, informed care and building a relationship with him was such a big part of the care.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Give too much, it may cause harm (even if the higher dose had no significant side effects, it would require patients to take a lot of unnecessary additional pills as well as increase the cost.) So, what is the effective dose of palliative care? Give too little – it may not work. Jennifer 04:25 I can take that on. Eric 05:32 Yeah.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

was supported by the fossil fuel industry , because it shifted responsibility for change from industry to individuals. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Ruth McDermott-Levy, who is Professor in the College of Nursing at Villanova University and Co-Director of the Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health and the Environment.

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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. So if you already have a condition, you might be able to prevent events. And I think that’s something that we can really focus on, especially with geriatric patients.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

The PPS is one of the most widely used prognostic tools for seriously ill patients, but the prognostic estimates given by the PPS are based on data that is well over a decade old. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley have no relationships to disclose.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

It could be in housing, it could be a standalone senior center, home delivered meals, nutrition counseling and nutrition education done by registered dieticians. I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. To Susan’s point.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 1, 2023

In particular we spend a good deal of time talking about what this means for asymptomatic patients who may have an abnormal biomarker, which by the proposed new definition would mean they would now have Alzheimer’s disease. Alex: We have an all-star cast. Heather, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Jason, welcome back to GeriPal.

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