GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Panelists BJ Miller and Naomi Saks have no relationships to disclose. ” So there’s this element too, of what’s suffering in relationship to others, and can we compare? The more we can notice that, the more we can actually be present for that family and actually see how they’re experiencing it.

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IT Families Family Physicals 137

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Many older adults lose decision-making capacity during serious illnesses, and a significant percentage lack family or friends to assist with decisions. And there are no default pathways of family or friends to rely on and no known people who could potentially represent this person from within their inner circle.

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 109

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

So I actually was doing a grand rounds as my final presentation here at Yale for my fellowship on the role of music in host pice and palliative medicine. And we got all into his family stuff and how he’d been suffering with cancer and his goal. Just encourage patients and families to bring music into their healthcare experience.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 97

GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . Heather Coats is hard at work establishing the evidence base for the power of capturing patient stories in healthcare settings, for those health systems that need a little more convincing. . They’re people, and what makes us people if not our life’s stories?

Patient-Centered 115

Patient-Centered Illness Healthcare IT 115

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Laurie Dornbrand has no relationships to disclose. If they didn’t do it all by themselves, they talked to the family and it was a conversation, but also there wasn’t a whole lot that doctors can do then. ICU care was pretty rudimentary.

Families 112

Families Family Patient-Centered IT 112

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

And I think a big part of that journey was just having that right time, that right moment, with the right network and support groups of individuals, including my family, to really lift me up and allow me to celebrate my authentic self. You present your. If we think of discrimination, how people are treated by their biological family.

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Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 82

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson have no relationships to disclose. I think for families and for other providers who are not trained in that, it’s very hard to predict. I could imagine that could lead to conflict.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson have no relationships to disclose. What is your relationship? As I cycle through these things, what I find is I’m suddenly extremely present. Eric 24:51 Yeah. She said much the same thing. What will be the follow up?

Illness 129

Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 129

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

But if we’re going to have a family meeting, that’s a different circumstance. Eric 11:58 So going back to the case that you presented at the start, so you’re seeing this person use a whole lot of humor. Potentially harmful elements of that coping mechanism for your relationship with your four year old.

Illness 125

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 125

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Ishwaria 05:29 And that’s really how this field of professional well being, healthcare professional well being, clinician well being, has evolved, is that there is an important place in our overall professional well being for personal resilience and our individual coping strategies, recovery methods from day to day.

IT 111

IT Healthcare Healthcare Professional Patient-Centered 111

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

We’ve invited two death doulas, Jane Euler and John Loughnane (who is also a family doc and palliative care physician), to talk about the role of a doula at the end of life. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome John Loughnane who is a palliative care doctor and end-of-life doula and co-founder of Present for You.

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Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. And so I really gain that and I love the chorus words that she uses in this song.

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

And in response, the family or patient looked at you like you were from another planet? Coming off as rote and scripted during a serious illness conversation can have a similar off-putting impact on patients and families. Links: – Uncanny Valley post on Josh’s fantastic substack Notes from a Family Meeting. Eric: Yeah.

Illness 101

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So my family is from Maui and were impacted by the wildfires, so I really appreciate this. Alex: How is your family doing? My family’s also from Maui. And her dad’s family, the Makekaus family, which is based in Lahaina, and we actually visited their grave sites there, when we were there a few years ago.

Patient-Centered 129

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Today we have a star-studded lineup, including Lexy Torke of Indiana University, who discusses her RCT of a chaplaincy intervention for surrogates of patients in the ICU , published in JPSM and plenary presentation at AAHPM/HPNA. ” And you start entering into a conversation about support or relationships and things of that nature.

IT 99

IT Patient-Centered Families Family 99

GeriPal

MAY 29, 2025

Today we talk about lucid episodes and what they might mean to the person with dementia, their family and loved ones, to philosophers, to clinicians, to neuroscientists. Particularly patients, families. Alex 06:05 And, oh, for that family, it was so meaningful. That their loved one is in there. Eric 01:34 Yeah. Eric 06:07 Yeah.

Families 93

Families Family IT Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

Jasmine: It’s an imaginative love story that deconstructs age through an intergenerational friend relationship. And yet nursing home residents and their families and the rest of us somehow are supposed to buy into this idea that we can’t get enough staff, so it’s okay to give them poor care. Eric: Can I ask why?

Finance 95

Finance Board-Certified IT Provider 95

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.

IT 104

IT Patient-Centered Families Family 104

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. But then recognizing that our relationships impact our health even outside the context of stress.

IT 99

IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 99

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Jerry: Probably for the reason a lot of people go into geriatrics, close relationship with grandparents, volunteered to work in a nursing home as a high school student, just felt really good about being around old people and not having a problem with it. I finished my fellowship in ’88. Why did you go into it?

Board-Certified 91

Board-Certified IT Community Medical Student 91

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary In todays podcast we were delighted to be joined by the presenters of the top scientific abstracts for the Annual Assembly of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine ( AAHPM ) and the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Nurses Association ( HPNA ). From just the abstracts we had so many questions.

Consulting 63

Consulting Community Patient-Centered Families 63

GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

I felt like I was always told to present people with a buffet of options and, really, without guidance, ask them to choose, which is, it would always make me feel sick to my stomach. So I first want to just say thank you to Ernesto’s family. And I described a code that I led as a senior resident. Sunita: Yes.

Illness 136

Illness IT Patient-Centered Families 136

GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

And finally, Wendy offers a drawing lesson and ONE-MINUTE drawing assignment to help us (and our listeners) be more present and connect with one another. First you have to be a volunteer and see what it’s like to be present at the bedside. Much more about relationships has been my experience. Frank 08:43 Well, briefly.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Relationship 122

GeriPal

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. Jill Schneiderhan, a family medicine and integrative medicine doc, helps us think through this. So I’m going to present a case.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 77

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. He was a person with schizophrenia, he was a person who used drugs and he presented in pain crisis to our shelter. And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. Naheed, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

Healthcare 100

Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

AUGUST 8, 2024

We cover a wide range on this topic, weaving in our own stories of loss with Thomas’s experiences, stories, and poems from years of caring for families after their loved one’s have died. Now, you can’t fix a broken relationship by putting it in this box or that box. None of them will get you into heaven or keep you out.

IT 124

IT Families Family Relationship 124

GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

And I think that’s what’s important for families to know because everyone wants to stop this disease and roll back the clock to make their loved one better. But all of this has to be understood by the patient and the families and so that they’re comfortable of that. Remember, family member. It’s coherent.

Patient-Centered 98

Patient-Centered IT Clinic Patients 98

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Eduardo Bruera has no relationships to disclose. And the truth is we don’t want, I don’t want any patient or family to perceive that when Brera goes to see me, there’s a second interest, a second gain. There’s something.

Illness 133

Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 133

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Because sometimes they have much more longstanding relationships with these patients than me meeting them for a slice in time and trying to shuffle the deck, so to speak. A pill organizer, having family. They may have a long relationship with that cardiologist, so it requires some collaboration. I don’t know.

Primary Care 113

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Panelists Elissa Kozlov and Desiree Azizoddin have no relationships to disclose. They’re still engaging fully with their family and with the activities and the hobbies that they’re still able to do. ” And they say, “Well, I’m discharge planning.

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Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

So I think just as much as we focus on the science and the evidence, it’s important to think about the art of how we apply that to people and the relationships and all of the great fun stuff, the stories that unfold in the exam room alongside the science itself. Eric 04:44 Yeah. And I gotta ask Emily, is that why you started Nocturnist?

IT 107

IT Community Patients Families 107

GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

And again, that can create a food desert, which can create health issues for patients and their families, so that’s an example of structural racism, but again, it’s baked into laws. It’s baked into people’s belief systems, who ultimately make laws and make policies, and it can influence healthcare.

IT 92

IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Patients 92

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

** Claim your CME credit for EP293 “What’s Up With MAID in Canada” [link] Note : If you have not already registered for CME, you can register here [link] For more info on the CME credit, go to [link] Disclosures: Moderators Drs Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. But that was separate from MAID. Eric: Bill.

Illness 144

Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

And it’s very traumatic obviously for the family and all of that and the team really. Alex 10:52 And did you have algorithms you’d present to them, like given this patient’s circumstance, these are recommendations? Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Corita 10:59 No, it was rather simple.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

I was asking about what was going to be special about the trip or if they were going to do things with their family. I’ve got to think that through, but it felt to me like more, all right, I’m not living anymore with my shoulder to the wheel entirely to try to improve the treatment experience for kids and their family.

Illness 128

Illness IT Diagnose Medical 128

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

I’m wondering if we can think about that structured approach if I just present the case and how you all would think about it from a trauma informed. And I love the structured approach. Alex 27:43 Is that a tongue twister? Eric 27:45 Yes. Trauma informed. Trauma informed care approach. So you ready? Trauma informed care approach.

IT 67

IT Patient-Centered Individual Screening 67

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

She entertained her family. Thanksgiving’s coming up, you’re having your family, Christmas coming up. You’re going to go traveling to Hawaii with your family, and, you know, you want to die in January. And he had a deadly fear of being institutionalized, based on his previous present experience.

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Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98