GeriPal

JULY 3, 2025

We’ve invited two palliative care doctors to talk about survivorship with us: Laura Petrillo , a physician-researcher at Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and Laura Shoemaker , an outpatient palliative care doctor at the Cleveland Clinic. I was there and at University Hospitals, had a great visit.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

We pepper Sarah with questions ranging from: Why should we care about falls? What are ways we should screen for falls? You know, I wonder how much, because it’s probably not brought up a lot in primary care settings. People don’t ask about it, they don’t screen about it. Eric 04:51 Yeah.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

I’ve worked in hospital settings as an occupational therapist, inpatient rehab and outpatient rehab. Emmy: I was seeing people in the hospital setting, saying they had had a massive brain injury. Emmy: Ended up starting a program, outpatient at our hospital at the time. How did you get interested in this? Is this our role?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

After discussing screening options for substance use disorder, we go on to talk about both the treatments for it and the issues that arise. So, we are not screening for substance use in cancer care, so we don’t get good estimates among people with cancer, which is really how we would prefer to ask the question.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 135

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

To start with assessing all these syndromes and palliative care related problems and geriatric syndromes, so that we can create interventions that allow people to receive the cutting edge therapies. There’s really no added extra resource or time that the coordinators really need to put to doing the screening, themselves.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

And so they’re in there for a very short time, couple weeks, get a little bit stronger and transition home after a hospitalization. Support supportive care and end of life care for as long as that might be. Eric 14:32 So there’s financial disincentives for interdisciplinary palliative care teams. right there.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

We also explored several questions with them, including how to define trauma, its prevalence in older adults, the impact of past traumatic experiences, the potential triggers of trauma screening, and the application of trauma-informed principles in clinical practice. Like, does that indirect? Is that also a trauma? Mariah 23:02 Right.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 00:23 All right, first, we’re welcoming back Ricky Le it er, who’s a palliative care doc at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and is co-founder of the Palliative Story Exchange. And I turned to my dad and I said, I think mom needs palliative care.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

On today’s podcast we dive into drivers of invasive procedures and hospitalizations in advanced dementia by talking to some pretty brilliant nursing and nurse practitioner researchers focused on dementia, geriatrics, and palliative care in nursing homes: Ruth Palan Lopez, Caroline Stephens, Joan Carpenter, and Lauren Hunt. Ruth: Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

And the actors were blinded to whether this was a primary care doctor or a chat bot answering them. It’ll certainly write the letter summarizing your visit to the primary care doc, and then, write another version of it in patient language, both their language and their reading level, if you want, to the patient.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

And when she was here, she co founded the Golden Compass Clinic at San Francisco General Hospital for older adults living with HIV. Eric 00:50 So we’re going to be talking about HIV and geriatrics and palliative care. Is that what you’re seeing as a palliative care provider now or. So it was more integrated.

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Primary Care IT Provider Clinic 93

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

Today we talk with Margot Kushel about how we got here, including: That sense of powerlessness as a clinician when you “fix up” a patient in the hospital, only to discharge them to the street knowing things will fall apart. It was in the mid-nineties, and about half of the patients that we cared for in the inpatient service were homeless.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back to GeriPal podcast, Brooke Calton, who is a palliative care physician and faculty at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and is also newly the Medical Director of palliative care at Devoted Health. They couldn’t get a case manager to refer them in palliative care.

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