GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Despite these substantial needs, specialized palliative care beyond hospice is rare in nursing homes. Furthermore, only about half of nursing home residents nearing the end of life receive hospice care. So, how can we improve palliative care for individuals in nursing homes? Like, what does that part look like?

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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). We got some really special guests with us.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

She’s a hospice and palliative care nurse practitioner and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at UCSF. This was an investigative report about fraud and healthcare, pure fraud, pure victimization of vulnerable people. She happened to focus on some specific for-profit hospice providers.

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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

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Earlier this year palliative care was the correct response to the following clue on the game show Jeopardy: From a Latin word for “to cloak”, it’s the type of care given to seriously ill patients to provide comfort without curing. Marian: I have been a palliative care nurse practitioner for a number of years. Marian: Thank you.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

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. primary palliative care interventions seem to fail, whereas specialized palliative care interventions have a relatively robust track record of success. Why do so many (most, all??)

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

One bump is just the classic pitfalls we often talk about in serious illness communication: being very jargony, very information focused, and just providing information. All these studies in this fringe… We want the special key. And oftentimes the existential landscape of serious illness, there’s no special thing.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

To provide context, we are joined by Karen Steinhauser, a social scientist at Duke who has been studying spirituality for years (and published one of the most cited papers in palliative care on factors considered important at the end of life , as well as one of my favorite qualitative papers to give to research trainees ).

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

On today’s podcast Areej El-Jawahri, oncologist specializing in blood cancers at MGH, says that sexual health is one of the top if not the top issue among cancer survivors. Alex 00:06 We are delighted to welcome back Areej El-Jawahri, who’s an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who specializes in blood cancers.

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

It’s really special to be here and to be talking about this paper, which was really important to Randy. And if I remember that study correctly, it was priming both patients and providers in the outpatient setting to do goals of care conversations. We also provided reassurance that this is not a long conversation.

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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.” Think about CPC+.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back two very special guests who were with us early in the COVID pandemic, and really shown a light on what was happening for the rest of us who could see this giant wave coming, and were just thirsty for information and experiences from those people who were experiencing it early. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

And we would provide ongoing longitudinal care to them in the home, much like the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors programs, and other programs like that. And the treatments are different than what hospice might provide in the home setting. For the most part, programs are doing, twice a day, nursing visits. I trained at Hopkins.

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