GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

We debate the merits of use of CGM in the nursing home and other late life settings (Eric and I argue against CGM and lose). AlexSmithMD Additional Links: – Fingerstick monitoring in VA nursing homes (too common!) Listen in to learn more! Eric: And Alex, we’ve got a full house today. Alex Smith: We have a full house.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

However, at Mesa Family Physicians , we believe that preventive healthcare is the cornerstone of long-term wellness for our Mesa, Arizona community. Regular visits to your primary care physician at Mesa Family Physicians provide opportunities for early detection of potential health issues before they become serious problems.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Alex 01:23 And we’re delighted to welcome DorAnne Donesky, who is a palliative care nurse practitioner at Queen of the Valley Medical center in Napa and professor emeritus at the UCSF School of Nursing. Show me your scars.” Scars, really? I’ve been there. You probably have too. Michelle, welcome to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Heather Coats, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and scientist and Director of Research at the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, or HPNA, an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado and Schutz College of Nursing. Summary Transcript Summary.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 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

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Alex 00:30 And we are also delighted to welcome Eloise Theisen, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner at Stanford and CEO and co- c ounder of Radical Health Clinician Network, which helps patients use cannabis to treat chronic and age related illness. Summary Transcript CME Summary Cannabis is complicated. Do you want one?

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

2021 Association of Hospice Profit Status With Family Caregivers’ Reported Care Experiences. She’s a hospice and palliative care nurse practitioner and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at UCSF. JAMA IM 2021 Hospice Acquisitions by Profit-Driven Private Equity Firms. JAMA Health Forum. Is it you, Ira?

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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. All right, and finally we have Yael Zweig, who is a geriatric nurse practitioner at NYU. Alex 01:57 Joe, which city are you joining from?

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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. . Summary Transcript Summary. Narrative medicine? Wonderful work. Bennett, C.R.,

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

First, a clinician’s thoughts must be encoded into words, then transmitted often via sounds, and finally decoded back to thoughts by a patient or family member. Summary Transcript Summary Medical communication is tough, although fundamentally at its most basic unit of delivery, it includes really only three steps. Simple, right? Eric: Yeah?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Summary Transcript CME Summary It is a battle royale on this weeks GeriPal podcast. But watch out!

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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’ve seen this question come up a lot since finishing fellowship nearly two decades ago.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Our experts include Katie Fitzgerald Jones (palliative nurse practitioner and doctoral student at Boston College), Zachary Sager (palliative care physician at the Boston VA and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute), and Janet Ho (physician at UCSF in addiction medicine and palliative care). But does this drug really live up to the hype?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Katie, welcome back to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Kathleen 03:47 I think any of us who’ve spent any time in nursing homes have spent time working in a nursing home setting, have visited, had family members in nursing homes and looked around and seen the population there. And yet it’s been so hard to integrate palliative care into nursing homes.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

She was a member of the committee that wrote the National Academy’s report that we’re going to be talking about today on Improving Nursing Home Quality. We’re going to be talking about improving nursing home quality. I know you’ve been a strong advocate for nursing home patients particularly in California.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

We welcome all professions, including but not limited to physicians, chaplains, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, case managers, administrators, and pharmacists. It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions. For inquiries or to apply, please contact gayle.kojimoto@ucsf.edu. The theme is death.

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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. All right.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Alex: And we’re so delighted to welcome to the GeriPal Podcast Marian Grant, who is a palliative care nurse practitioner and marketing consultant, and she is at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. So what do we do about it? Don’t palliative care clinicians already know how to explain things with empathy?

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

While we like to think about how our goals and preferences will influence what that life looks like, including whether you will get potentially burdensome interventions, your fate is probably influenced more by factors like where you live and what nursing home you happen to end up in. . Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. Rehabbed to Death.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I cant do the primary thing Ive been trained to do: ABC, ABC, ABCs. Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it. They got training in Vital Talk and ELNEC. They got feedback. So did it matter? Fernanda 01:16 I do have a song request.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

You’re a senior author on this article in JPSM, where you interviewed some geriatricians and other people caring for older adults, nurse practitioners, social workers, et cetera. I am honored to introduce Bill Gardner, who’s a child psychologist and professor of psychiatry and epidemiology at the University of Ottawa.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 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

JULY 6, 2023

Administration on Aging connecting you to services for older adults and their families California’s Master Plan for Aging New York’s Master Plan for Aging Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Summary Transcript Summary You may have heard of Area Agencies on Aging, but do you really know what they do or how they do it?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

So many times, family caregivers have to argue with their loved ones about getting more help in the home or moving them to a place that has safety, has close proximity to medical care. Conflicts Experienced by Caregivers of Older Adults With the Health-Care System. Journal of Patient Experience. December 2020. Transcript. Take it away, Alex.

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

” And I saw Randy run family meetings before I knew he was famous, before I knew he was this legendary researcher. And he was just such a great doctor and such a great advocate for families. They found a difference of 4% in documented goals of care discussions. Is 4% meaningful? I think it’s you, Bob. Anything else?

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Don Dizon, oncologist specializing in pelvic malignancies at Brown, suggests speaking in plain language, starting by normalizing sexual health issues, to paraphrase, “Many of my patients experience issues with intimacy and sexual health. Is that an issue for you? I’m happy to talk about it at any time.” This is Eric Widera. Ra ra ra ra.

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GeriPal

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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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

At Mesa Family Physicians, we firmly believe that preventing health problems before they arise is always preferable to treating them after they’ve developed. Preventive care encompasses a wide range of healthcare services designed to maintain wellness, identify risk factors, and detect disease early when treatment is most effective.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

Read transcript and/or download & listen to MP3 below:  Physician burnout—symptom of a broken system “Burnout” has become one of the most talked-about issues in healthcare—but behind the buzzword lies a deeper crisis. Born into a family of physicians who warned her not to pursue medicine. I give you Dr. Pamela Wible.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

This was the opening paragraph that I wrote in March of 2020 when introducing a podcast we did with Dr. Jim Wright , the medical director at Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in suburban Richmond. That was his literally his life during those spring months of 2020 and it scared the hell out of me. . Darrell: Yes. Alex: From Cats?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In addition to discussing these outcomes, we also discuss: The history of the hospital-at-home movement. The practicalities of how it works including who are good candidates, where does it start (the ED?), what happens at home, do you need a caregiver, what happens if they need something like imaging? How is it financed and what comes next?

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