GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Kate and Ashwin talked about their research on the prevalence of lifetime trauma and its association with physical and psychosocial health among adults at the end of life. So there’s an event or a series of events. So there’s an event or a series of events. I guess that’s an event.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

I mean, to me, the Buddhist concept that there are multiple forms of suffering, like there’s the suffering that’s due to pain and physical symptoms. I think there is a difference, too, between physical suffering, and we have to also give that its dignity. I think there is definitely a place, especially physical.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. So I really opted to specialize in lung cancer because I thought that was the appropriate population to build a supportive and palliative care research agenda. Jennifer: Thanks.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Alex 02:20 (singing) “ Well, you wake up in the morning you hear the church bell ring and they march you to the table to see the same old thing ain’t no food upon the table ain’t no pork up in the pan but you better not complain boy, you get in trouble with a man let the midnight special shine a light on me. Thank you.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

My voice is nothing special. A music therapist would use music deliberately to achieve a rehabilitation goal, just like a physical therapist or an occupational therapist. He’s bringing in, like, a physical record player, but now also in hospice units as well, they’re bringing out music players with headphones.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

And, you know, I just thought it was a really special song. That we can’t predict when they’re gonna get sick or when they might go to the ED, when that big event may occur, but it’s also the uncertainty of who might be able to get transplanted. And so I thought it was appropriate. We’re talking about liver.

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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. What I think so special about palliative care is that there’s some really radical and important ideas that sort of undergird our work and that provided a foundation for our work.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Because I think we have someone special, a guest host. If they’re frail, if they’re falling, if they have cognitive impairment, they’re at higher risk of adverse drug events. Another study looking at the benefits of physical rehabilitation in patients with HFpEF. This is Eric Widera. He’s in Boston.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

So in some ways, it was an iatrogenic event. There was also a second event in that the pressures chosen weren’t the ideal ones. I mean, obviously nobody fed her the pill with the intention of choking her, but it wasn’t like suddenly she had another event out of the blue because she had a bad heart. And I was.

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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. We are already seeing effects and they’re pretty much every body system.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Eric 00:13 And Alex, we have a super special today, three different articles. Alex 00:18 Prognosis, super special today. So how physically active the patient is, how much time they spend awake, how much they’re eating, how much care they need, that type of thing. Eric 25:08 Super special. This is Eric W id era.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

Alex: But the longer title’s Ethno-Geriatrics and Special Populations. These were usually very physically demanding, low paid, often usually non-union work, that they worked their whole lives and were hanging on by their fingernails. Margot: Yes. The folks who were first homeless after 50 had incredibly different life stories.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

A physician actually ended up in status epilepticus, like in the ICU with event like almost dead from seizures as a result of sleep deprivation and overwork. It’s dangerous and unsustainable; emotionally, physically, spiritually, financially for the patients—and for us. Say I’m having a special.

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