GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Anne: Well, speaking of your kids, a very special, sometimes listener, chimed in named Ren Smith. We’re willing to spend $50,000 a year for individuals for their expensive pharmacy medication. We shouldn’t be mandating individuals, this should be an optional thing for individuals. Alex: Okay. Alex: Thank you.

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IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 126

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Kate and Ashwin talked about their research on the prevalence of lifetime trauma and its association with physical and psychosocial health among adults at the end of life. And you can’t really predict how each individual might react to the same experience. Some of them are really deeply individual experiences.

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IT Patient-Centered Screening Patients 66

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. So I really opted to specialize in lung cancer because I thought that was the appropriate population to build a supportive and palliative care research agenda. Jennifer: Thanks.

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

We must often deliver complex medical information that carries heavy emotional weight in pressured settings to individuals with varying cultural backgrounds, values, and beliefs. And my grandkid, like, I need you to see this child and, like, how wonderful and special they are. I heard that. And that is not actually tangential.

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IT Illness Families Family 132

GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

What I think so special about palliative care is that there’s some really radical and important ideas that sort of undergird our work and that provided a foundation for our work. Are we losing that thing that makes palliative care special, that Dame Cicely Saunders talks about those. Well, I guess just over 20 years ago.

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IT Patient-Centered Families Family 104

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

And, you know, I just thought it was a really special song. As this patient has an x percent mortality in three months, there’s a little more nuance to it, and it isn’t really applied to the individual. When the lymphedema therapy, it’s a type of physical therapy where they do wraps and they go.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

How you actually physically started doing this and built up so many followers over time and why are you doing it? And so I think we feel like we’re a community of practice almost, not just individuals trying to rack up the viewers and things. Eric: So we got a lot to talk about. And that’s not particularly sexy.

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Education IT Illness Healthcare 127

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Tom: So we did this study because patients who go through the stem cell transplant process face a lot of misery in terms of physical symptoms, psychological distress, anxiety, depression, and even a risk of PTSD afterwards, sort of like a medical trauma, you might think of it. I’m going to go to stem cell transplants. Why another study?

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Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

We’ve invited some very special guests to talk about the lower urinary tract – Christine Kistler and Scott Bauer. . Very interested in decision making around as we get older, individualizing care, sort of patient centered, values driven, it’s a tough decision to figure out. Chrissy: That’s fascinating. Chrissy: Yeah.

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Management IT Medical Patient-Centered 122

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

There’s no special thing to say, but sometimes we’re tempted to treat serious illness communication in that way, conversational judo or something, that I can maneuver around an encounter and create something new. All these studies in this fringe… We want the special key. And oftentimes there is no password.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

And also it’s a little bit of an insult to one’s identity to feel like if this special person in your life can be forgotten, then you can be forgotten. But our living memory home is a way to both maintain that connection, because that’s the fear is that you’re going to lose this connection to this very special person.

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IT Complication Relationship Specialization 100

GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

We talk with Kate about how despite how far we’ve come in palliative care research, we still don’t have answers to some fundamental questions, such as: Who should get specialized palliative care? Alex: It gets very local and individualizes as you were saying. Or there’s physical symptom needs. By diagnosis?

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Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis IT 99

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Chaplains can do an assessment of the spirituality of the individual and then they use interventions that are part of their discipline and those interventions are tailored to the individual’s spiritual and religious needs of the person that they’re caring for. They followed them during the course of their hospital stay.

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IT Patient-Centered Families Family 99

GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

This week we’re going on to episode two, which is for me one of the most special episodes we’ve done in GeriPal for a very, very long time. Eric: And in the end, we have a very special part where we actually get a tour of their gardens outside of the hospice unit. I am there with individuals who are dying.

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IT Families Family Board-Certified 97

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

She’s a geriatric nurse practitioner specializing in palliative care, and assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. We found their physical environment was drastically different; where those with low feeding tube rates had really a rather beautiful physical environment. Joan: Thanks.

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Nurse Practitioner Hospital Families Family 60

GeriPal

MARCH 31, 2022

And that poetry has helped in the process of both psychological and even sometimes physical healing. But then when you think about each one and their individual selves and how some are bruised, some are broken and what we do with them and how we can take the time to cherish each one and for what it is. Have you ever done that?

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IT Patients Medical Illness 70

GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

was supported by the fossil fuel industry , because it shifted responsibility for change from industry to individuals. I actually wonder though, since we’re on a GeriPal broadcast, I think that people are under emphasizing the special risk of older people. Voting and emailing congress to advocate for systemic change (e.g.

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Healthcare IT Education Hospital 129

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Eric 00:13 And Alex, we have a super special today, three different articles. Alex 00:18 Prognosis, super special today. So how physically active the patient is, how much time they spend awake, how much they’re eating, how much care they need, that type of thing. Eric 00:09 Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Eric 05:50 Yeah.

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Family Families Patient-Centered IT 106

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

What are the structural factors and individual factors that contribute to homelessness? Alex: But the longer title’s Ethno-Geriatrics and Special Populations. ” On that grand rounds, you differentiated structural factors from … I forget what the word was, individual- Margot: Individual risk factors.

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Mental Health IT Community Individual 123

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

And is it at all individualized to the patient? Danny 12:07 I don’t know how individualized it is. And that included scheduling a visit with a, with a facilitator who had been specially trained. It’s a lot. Eric 12:01 Does it talk about like outcomes, like the outcomes of cpr? And Jennifer, if you go ahead.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 79

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Too many people do because it’s really hard to keep their loved ones at home for the cost, the enormous financial, mental and physical strain for the family. He created fee for service, special fee for depression. Diane: Which too many people do, Malaz. There’s a book called The 36-hour day for dementia caregivers.

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Patient-Centered IT Families Family 125

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The patients that, I think, most benefited from it were those individuals who, as I said, maybe, had a pneumonia, and needed IV antibiotics, but wanted to do that… If they could get better in the comfort of their own homes, that were not interested in passing away in the hospital. It takes a bit to get these things up and going.

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Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

And so I’m not sure if this is true for Joe or for Brooke, but even before the pandemic in our practice here, we saw somewhere around 40 to 50% of our patients via telemedicine anyway, because we have a catchment area of patients who live very far away, many of whom have a lot of physical disability and other limitations to coming in person.

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