GeriPal

JULY 27, 2023

Eric: And anything else from the history or the physical that’s going to help you around the differential of the sleep problem? The post Sleep problems and Insomnia in Serious Illness: A Podcast wtih Cathy Alessi and Brienne Miner appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Your insights could help someone else in their healthcare journey! A clinic is a medical facility where healthcare professionals provide specialized medical care to patients. They also have a team of healthcare professionals such as doctors, nurses, medical assistants, and administrative staff.

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The Motivated MD

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

In medicine, it is commonly agreed that ‘to err is human’ Most healthcare professionals would agree that humans make mistakes. However, for many high-income healthcare professionals, investing in more than just one’s employer retirement plan will be commonplace. So yes, humans make mistakes.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

I mean, to me, the Buddhist concept that there are multiple forms of suffering, like there’s the suffering that’s due to pain and physical symptoms. I think there is a difference, too, between physical suffering, and we have to also give that its dignity. I think there is definitely a place, especially physical.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

social worker, chaplain), everyone should be able to ask a question or two about spiritual concerns, social concerns, or physical concerns. So, for instance, I do a psychosocial screen, I do a physical screen, I do screens in all the other domains. In other words, in addition to being a specialist (e.g. But how about you!

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Screening IT Family Families 120

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

And I love the podcast that we did because it really highlights… We pride ourselves in palliative care, and focusing on physical, psychological, social, and spiritual suffering. I mean, they’re appropriate to enroll, I think. Eric: Yeah. Or telephone calls, I should say. I remember… I guess, I could say this.

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Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

So in our trial, because of security reasons, we are required by Health Canada to store the substance in a special secure area in my office. This hypothesis Played itself out in an interesting way, Ali John 11:15 Thinking about total pain and addressing physical, emotional, social, and spiritual issues. James 01:34 Yeah, right on.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 107

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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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So I make the point, they often say, “Oh, you have this special population,” like pediatrics, where it’s 10% or something. And then the duo, physical and cognitive function, those are the seven that… Alex: Oh, that’s a good way of remembering it. Do you worry about that? We actually have the majority.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

My voice is nothing special. A music therapist would use music deliberately to achieve a rehabilitation goal, just like a physical therapist or an occupational therapist. He’s bringing in, like, a physical record player, but now also in hospice units as well, they’re bringing out music players with headphones.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Alex 02:20 (singing) “ Well, you wake up in the morning you hear the church bell ring and they march you to the table to see the same old thing ain’t no food upon the table ain’t no pork up in the pan but you better not complain boy, you get in trouble with a man let the midnight special shine a light on me. Thank you.

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Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 133

GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

And my grandkid, like, I need you to see this child and, like, how wonderful and special they are. Your patients expect you to care for them, their mental well being, their physical well being. I heard that. So I think it’s a bit of both acknowledging it and the emotion that may be in the room, but also just seeing the family.

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IT Illness Family Families 132

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Anne: Well, speaking of your kids, a very special, sometimes listener, chimed in named Ren Smith. The post GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. I’m sure we all have the same issue. Alex: Okay. Alex: Thank you.

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IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 126

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Because I think we have someone special, a guest host. Another study looking at the benefits of physical rehabilitation in patients with HFpEF. Transcript Eric 00:00 Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric Widera. Alex 00:04 This is Alex Smith. Eric 00:05 And Alex, who do we have with us today? He’s in Boston.

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Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

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. Physical symptoms like pain, dyspnea, fatigue, psychological symptoms, depression, loneliness, and then some of the social experiences as well, like social isolation.

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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. It really is special. Balfour amount.

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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

JUNE 16, 2022

We’ve invited some very special guests to talk about the lower urinary tract – Christine Kistler and Scott Bauer. . The redness and on their physical exam they’ve got new redness on their leg. So giving antibiotics for a positive urine culture or unclear symptoms may actually cause more harm than good. Chrissy: Yeah.

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Management IT Medical Patient-Centered 122

GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

I think that there are times when we use humor to cope, and that’s a special and very tender space for of people to share in, but is not something that you want to expose to the light of the world. I share this story of a patient I cared for who was in the later stages of ALS and had lost much of physical function, lost voice.

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IT Hospital Patients Illness 145

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? Any one tip, you got one tip that you would offer to those who are on the fence about doing public-facing social media around their professional roles and to teach, to educate. Eric: So we got a lot to talk about.

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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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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

And, you know, I just thought it was a really special song. When the lymphedema therapy, it’s a type of physical therapy where they do wraps and they go. And he actually was able to get through that with a lot of help from different people. And so I thought it was appropriate. We’re talking about liver. Eric 43:12 Okay.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

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 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? Or there’s physical symptom needs. Should eligibility and access be determined by clinician referral? By diagnosis? By prognosis?

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Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis IT 99

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 Family Families 60

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. Alex: This is Alex Smith. I only know what I see.

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IT Family Families Board-Certified 97

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

So, I do think that we have, I think of our team as an overlapping venn diagram or anyone not to be able on, the team ought to be able to listen deeply and provide some of this, but then the chaplain does have these special domains. So there is this overlap. For me that kind of was able to put my head around that. Good night, everybody.

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IT Patient-Centered Family Families 99

GeriPal

MARCH 31, 2022

And that poetry has helped in the process of both psychological and even sometimes physical healing. Steve had a very special ability in that. The post Poetry about Aging: Marilyn McEntyre and Guy Micco appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Have you ever done that?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The hope is having help for you and your family and support and not being physically uncomfortable. She got to go to all of her grandson’s baseball games, and she got to make every grandchild something special for them when things were getting really serious. Those are valid hopes. Tony: Yeah. Eric: Yeah. ” Tony: Totally.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 101

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

They have a special skill, and when they see someone who needs it, they need to use it. That makes it really special for them and for me. And it bothers me how the nurses are there, the physical therapists are there, some of the social workers are there. And ed imbued in me the concept that physicians are like lifeguards.

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Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

Haider: Yeah, this is a special song. Like yourself, when I was a resident, and pain has been shaped in our mind as being a purely physical sensation, especially on the clinical side, where this idea that pain is complex and that pain is as much an emotion as much as physical sensation is not really something we are trained to do.

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Patient-Centered Physicals IT Patients 106

GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

I actually wonder though, since we’re on a GeriPal broadcast, I think that people are under emphasizing the special risk of older people. Eric: So as we start talking about things that we can do about it, maybe we can just start off with this thing of including it in the curriculum for healthcare professionals.

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Healthcare IT Education Hospital 129

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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Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

And in our reporting center, we tracked physical assaults, verbal harassment. And also physical assault from serious injuries to just kind of hearing about friends who have died from this incident. And that has an impact, as we’ve shown in the papers, on your social health, your mental health and physical health.

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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 25:08 Super special. This is Eric W id era.

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Family Families Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

Alex: But the longer title’s Ethno-Geriatrics and Special Populations. These were usually very physically demanding, low paid, often usually non-union work, that they worked their whole lives and were hanging on by their fingernails. Margot: Yes. The folks who were first homeless after 50 had incredibly different life stories.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

And that included scheduling a visit with a, with a facilitator who had been specially trained. The post Pragmatic Trial of ACP: Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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