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MARCH 3, 2022

And Lauren Ferrante has found in a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine that trajectories of disability in the year prior to ICU admission were highly predictive of disability post-ICU, on the same order of magnitude as mechanical ventilation. It was this slow build, I would say. Alex: What happens when people survive?

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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. Physical symptoms like pain, dyspnea, fatigue, psychological symptoms, depression, loneliness, and then some of the social experiences as well, like social isolation.

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APRIL 24, 2025

Daneila Lamas wrote about this issue in the New York Times this week -after we recorded – in her story, a family requested an herbal infusion for their dying mother via feeding tube. How does integrative medicine fit in with this? Jill Schneiderhan, a family medicine and integrative medicine doc, helps us think through this.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

A pill organizer, having family. Another study looking at the benefits of physical rehabilitation in patients with HFpEF. The post Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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MARCH 6, 2025

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. 80% died exactly where they wanted to and 83% were reconnected to family or friends through a psychosocial support system that we put into place.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

Harvey is probably best known for his work in developing dignity therapy, a psychological intervention designed specifically to address many of the psychological, existential, and spiritual challenges that patients and their families face as death approaches. Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that.

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MARCH 31, 2022

Marilyn: Well, I lived in a three generation family and my grandmother was an English teacher, and my mother was a teacher and everybody read. And so poetry was just part of the family discourse. And so I was really happy when I found a way to come into medicine through the back door. Have you always been interested in poetry?

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JULY 25, 2024

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. And just like cultural background, there are some individuals and families that would really never have their loved one enter a nursing home, choosing instead to take care of them.

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AUGUST 15, 2024

Lingsheng (and I) recently published studies on this in JAMA Internal Medicine , and JAGS. And in our reporting center, we tracked physical assaults, verbal harassment. And also, you know, do they know of anyone, friends, family, coworkers who’s been attacked, were assaulted as a part of these incidents? generation.

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MARCH 27, 2025

Today we are delighted to welcome Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, and Danny Scerpella, who conducted a pragmatic trial of advance care planning (ACP) in primary care practices; and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who wrote an accompanying commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine. I’m hearing family and caregivers. Eric 02:32 Great, Alex.

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Malaz: I love it.

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JUNE 2, 2022

NIH study about long COVID published the day before in Annals of Internal Medicine. Our department chair is always tweeting, and I think there was a fourth shot and then a mild infection in a family member. We don’t want them to get COVID, but we want them to live in the world and see their friends and families.

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