GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

In particular, she reminds us that when we think about the most challenging of our patient encounters, they almost always involve a complex psychosocial dynamic, and this has received far less attention than communication and symptom management issues. . – Serious Illness Conversation Guide podcast. AlexSmithMD . Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

But why I decided to look at medical and mental health care and assisted living. So, we’ve been seeing that there’s this increasing need for attending to the medical and mental health wellbeing of people in assisted living more so than before, because it’s not really just a social model of care.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

To be eligible in Canada patients must have a “ grievous and irremediable ” condition, including disability ; they do not have to have a terminal illness with a prognosis of less than 6 months. A planned expansion of MAID to include people with mental illness was placed on hold until March 2024. So less than six months to live.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

If you believe the evidence for efficacy to manage symptoms like neuropathic pain, how do you even start to think about recommending these products to patients? Eloise is a palliative care NP at Stanford and co-founder of The Radicle Health Clinician Network. They want to be able to manage their own symptoms.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. So we’re going to be today talking about serious illness palliative care in the homelessness population. I’ll just throw out there people with serious illness experiencing homelessness.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

So folks that are having refractory ascites or refractory encephalopathies, challenging emotional symptom management as well. Any particular thoughts on how to manage pain and liver disease from a pharmacological perspective? Eric 24:21 Is it any different than other diseases? How you think about that. I mean, is it. Alex 35:46 No.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Eric 01:04 So we’re going to be talking about transgender health in older adults and those with serious illness. Jace 29:36 We see higher rates of mental health challenges that I think are due to overcoming adversity. Happy pride and thanks for the invitation, Alex and E. And great to meet Jace on here.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Pain Manag Nurs. The illness narratives suffering, healing, and the human condition. With the mental health, we pulled out the medical model. 2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004. 2023.11.004. PMID: 38129210.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

But now we have older people dying of older people illnesses. Alex: And are the regulations similar or different in terms of six month required prognosis or less, should the disease take its usual course, or illnesses leading to a short prognosis? We have about 450 inpatient mental health beds. Eric: Mm-hmm.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

And this is, I’m going to go a little wonky just for a second because like looking at the 11 things that you looked at for trauma events, some seem like pretty universal trauma events, like having a life threatening illness, a child of yours who died being physically abused when you were young. Which may not be necessarily traumatizing.

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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. Inviting them to brainstorm into that process can be important.

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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. And so following that stream, sort of some of the most recent work was funded by the VA, first of all to develop a measure of spirituality for those in serious illness.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Juliet and Rachelle are two of the authors of a recent JAMA viewpoint titled “Shifting to Serious Illness Communication.” . Also see the image below from Alex’s editorial in JAGS , a Venn diagram of advance care planning and serious illness communication. Shifting to Serious Illness Communication. Transcript. What is it?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Alex 12:36 And most of our listeners are like clinician, practicing clinicians caring for older adults, people with serious illness. They had access to the cancer center resources, but they didn’t have access to sort of regular contact with palliative care mental health professionals. Is this superior to that?

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GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

Alex: I also appreciate the multifaceted view you have on pain in the way it teaches us, in the way it teaches our children not to touch a hot stove, in the way pain has been used for good or for ill by religion as way of interpreting a spiritual experience, and the richness within which we have experienced and viewed pain over time.

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GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

Eric: All right, before we start talking about COVID in older adults and those with serious illness, do you have a song request for Alex? And if you look at the span of history of infectious diseases, we have always managed to control all infectious diseases because we have tools because it’s the other, it’s not yourself.

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