GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Eric: And Alex, we’re going to be talking about substance use disorder and serious illness and aging, with three amazing experts. Eric: So, before we jump into the topic of substance use disorder in aging and serious illness, I think someone has a song request. Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric Widera.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Often the work of the certified driving rehab specialist is to assess the older drivers goals, assess prognosis for driving, and help the family navigate discussions around driving cessation (hmmm…sounds like an approach to family meetings). Love to talk about also in the serious illness population. Eric: Yeah.

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IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

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. The patient refuses to ever talk about the fact that this illness could take their life.

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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

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. So those types of relationships, clergy, non family members, we talk about, I think cohabitating unmarried couples. Is that fair? Tim 11:59 Yeah.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 109

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

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. What words to use? Is the POLST useful? Under what circumstances? Should we abandon the term, “comfort measures?” Bernie: Well, there was a time when doctors made these decisions.

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Family Families Patient-Centered IT 112

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

nursing homes grapple with serious illnesses, and roughly half experience dementia. 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. Cognitive impairment.

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Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

And I was interviewing candidates for our clinical fellowship and interviewed Alexis, who had been like family medicine doc before, done all kinds of cool things. Maybe the alternative of the patient whose family hopes for a miracle in the face of certain death, for only that death to occur as anticipated by all. Ricky 11:23 Yeah.

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IT Community Patients Family 107