GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

The chart that I have in my book and that I use in practice and so many healthcare systems have adopted already, is the very best, cutting edge data we have. Really because of the structure and the nature of equianalgesic tables, similar information with simpler math, can easily be presented to our colleagues. Tell me your thoughts.

IT 139

IT Patients Individual Relationship 139

GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

My take home from this is that while the most preferred explanation for deprescribing statins and sedative-hypnotics is one focused on the risk of side effects, we also need to individualize it to the patient and the medication that they are taking. Maybe that’s where the individualizing it, the person that’s front of me.

Specialization 104

Specialization Medical Patient-Centered Provider 104

GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

IT 120

IT Patient-Centered Patients Clinic 120

GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

It’s Lona Mody who is a translational infectious disease researcher at the University of Michigan and VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Devika Nair, who is a nephrologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee Valley VA Healthcare System. Our first guest is a repeat guest.

Complication 97

Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 97

GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

I’m thinking of chronic pain, for example, and individuals with chronic pain often have disturbed sleep or other conditions. I presented this at the big clinical trials meeting in November in San Francisco. And because we can’t resist, we dip into aducanumab and lecanemab at the end. Alex: Mm-hmm. It’s funny.

Physicals 85

Physicals IT Hypertension Education 85

Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

Fever can present alongside other symptoms, such as chills and fatigue, which may help in diagnosing the underlying cause. During the examination, healthcare providers assess vital signs, such as heart rate and blood pressure, and look for physical signs of infection or illness.

Diagnosis 130

Diagnosis Management Illness Diagnose 130

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Noelle Marie 01:24 I think it really speaks a lot to my own personal journey and I’m pretty sure a lot of trans and gender diverse individuals also resonate with and it really speaks about our transition, celebrating our authentic selves, how society views us and how we view ourselves when we stand in front of a mirror.

Individual 85

Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 85

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

On today’s podcast, we talk with Jane Thomas , Naomi Saks , and Ishwaria Subbiah about the concepts of wellness, well-being, resilience, and burnout, as well as what can be done to truly improve the lives of healthcare providers and bring, I dare say it, joy into our work. For a team that’s tagged with professional.

IT 110

IT Healthcare Healthcare Professional Patient-Centered 110

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

That’s where it really gets to this individual risks and balances, individual situation. And I’ve been to some presentations that use that same breaking bad news model for having these driving conversations, as are used in palliative care. Alex: Yeah. Terri, I wonder if you could comment on that. Absolutely.

IT 102

IT Families Family Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Heather Coats is hard at work establishing the evidence base for the power of capturing patient stories in healthcare settings, for those health systems that need a little more convincing. . Many links: VA Presents: My Life, My Story: George: A Voice To Be Heard on Apple Podcasts. Wonderful work. Every Veteran has a story.

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Patient-Centered Illness Healthcare IT 115

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

These individuals may become unrepresented, meaning they lack the capacity to make a specific medical decision, do not have an advance directive for that decision, and do not have a surrogate to help. How should we care for unrepresented individuals in inpatient and outpatient settings? So there’s no healthcare surrogate.

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 109

GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Tell me how your illness has impacted your relationships with others, your healthcare team, your family, friends, your beliefs, your values, your preferences. And now my program of research is around testing that person-centered narrative intervention or PCNI because you have to give them an acronym in healthcare.

IT 105

IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

Annie 02:31 So if you go to the A G S meeting every year, you know that this group of three individuals comprises the AGS literature update. But in spite of that, it is a lot of work for three individuals to pull all this together. So that this is not something that might affect the individual clinician patient decision.

IT 64

IT Hospital Screening Patients 64

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. And so there are different levels of power within our healthcare system. ” And we started in this way.

IT 102

IT Families Family Clinic 102

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We talk about what is heart failure, particularly HFpEF, how we treat it (including the use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2’s), and how we should apply guidelines to individual patients, especially those with multimorbidity who are taking a lot of other medications. But we’re not perfect individuals.

Primary Care 113

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

-Alex End Well Talk [link] Resources on the PEACH Program Program Review Paper A recent publication in Longwoods Healthcare Quarterly reviewing the PEACH model. link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. those experiencing homelessness).

Healthcare 100

Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

In addition to being a palliative and hospice RN, she is the Executive Director for Goodwin Hospice , a large non-profit hospice that added end-of-life doula care to their services in collaboration with Jane and John’s doula organization, Present for You. It sets space between us and the individuals we’re trying to take care of.

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Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

My favorite line from Emily’s paper: “Geriatric assent has not been widely adopted in clinical care, but bioethicists should advocate for this, as adoption of partial-involvement strategies can prolong the period in which individuals are (appropriately) engaged in decisions about their health care.” This is Eric Widera. Not anymore.”

Families 97

Families Family Patient-Centered IT 97

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Susan: I’ll just say, I think that could happen outside of the healthcare setting pretty easily and frequently does. Although, certainly when you start facing complications of serious illness, it is increasingly important to engage as individuals and conversations about goals, values, and preferences. Rebecca: Agreed.

Illness 72

Illness IT Healthcare Patient-Centered 72

GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

Second, as we discussed in last week’s podcast , older adults, particularly those in nursing homes, were far more likely to die than younger individuals. It’s baked into people’s belief systems, who ultimately make laws and make policies, and it can influence healthcare. Eric: Absolutely. I was going to stop at that point.

IT 91

IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Patients 91

GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

So what is the role of individuals like geriatricians in prescribing amyloid antibodies and caring for individuals who are receiving them? And I do think geriatricians need to as individuals make that decision, largely based on their comfort with the diagnostics and the specifics of the therapeutics. I’m a prescriber.

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Patient-Centered IT Clinic Patients 98

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Lynn 31:56 One little detail that stood out to me, which really rang true to real life, was that caregivers were actually less present during visits in the video visits. Because on one level, you could make the argument that with the caregiver not being present, perhaps there’s a breakdown in communication. Joe 41:30 Yeah.

Telehealth 105

Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

I started going to the literature and I noticed that communities of color, those with the Hispanic background, Black individuals were disproportionately impacted by dementia, and I couldn’t believe it. I think, again, it’s the person’s individual, their preference. Alex: Yeah, I like that approach too.

Community 128

Community Families Family IT 128

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

It’s Lona Mody who is a translational infectious disease researcher at the University of Michigan and VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Devika Nair, who is a nephrologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee Valley VA Healthcare System. Our first guest is a repeat guest.

Complication 52

Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary Falls are very common among older adults but often go unreported or untreated by healthcare providers. Sarah 11:14 So it’s really assessing patients for their individual risk factors for falls. The present. Eric 38:38 The present two years versus one year. Hearing is one.

IT 124

IT Screening Patient-Centered Community 124

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

I talked about lack of prestige and respect, and I talked about how healthcare system leaders and medical school deans don’t always seem to value the field of geriatrics. But then I realized who I wasn’t hearing from, I did not hear from the CEO of my organization, my healthcare organization. One was very surprising.

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Board-Certified IT Community Medical Student 91

GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Our guests today present an important rejoinder to the argument that we should refocus away from advance care planning (ACP). I think one of the strengths of a group visit is that you can choose the materials that you want that are actually most helpful to the individuals who come to your clinic.

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Community IT Patient-Centered Primary Care 95

GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Alex Smith Links Link to the McGill National Grand Rounds Series on Palliative Care , Michael Kearney as initial presenter, and registration for future events. You’re talking about a paradigm shift in healthcare. Is that how we presented ourselves? And love that Jim Croce choice. Whats in a name? Ive got a name.

IT 104

IT Patient-Centered Families Family 104

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Today we have a star-studded lineup, including Lexy Torke of Indiana University, who discusses her RCT of a chaplaincy intervention for surrogates of patients in the ICU , published in JPSM and plenary presentation at AAHPM/HPNA. These hick pick codes are available to any chaplain in a healthcare system. It’s now available.

IT 99

IT Patient-Centered Families Family 99

GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

Alex 00:59 And I met all three of you and watched you do a presentation about psilocybin research at the Congress International Desens Palliative Miguel. What I presented at HPM was findings of several hundred outpatients and the two most salient constructs were depression. Ali John, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. So when we did have.

Illness 107

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 107

GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

Jasmine: Within the report, and that’s kind of tricky, we say we want more education, we want expanded roles, we want individuals to be able to do more. We have on our steering committee, we have Lori Porter from NAHA, which is the National Association of Healthcare Assistance, and she’s been very active. Plain and simple.

Finance 95

Finance Board-Certified IT Provider 95

GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

And for a few reasons, which I’m sure we’ll get into, I think it’s probably most effective upstream of the acute care setting, more in the nursing home setting or for patients who are not presenting in the hospital or emergency department setting. So we have the intervention is a big part.

Patient-Centered 126

Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 126

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

No, I mean, I think I had the initial feeling or thought about this being present after I learned about it and were thoughtful with senior mentors about it. What it found is that healthcare providers are better at identifying people that are connected more than disconnected. You just knew it? Thomas: Yeah, yeah. Ashwin Kotwal: Oh, wow.

IT 99

IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 99

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

And I think the crisis that we’re in right now in healthcare delivery, the idea of laying down my badge, I think that’s maybe a metaphor for being a sheriff, but what about being a healthcare provider? And so she was able to validate that their nonverbal communication was very different within an individual physician.

Patient-Centered 111

Patient-Centered Patients IT Healthcare 111

FDA Law

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Many states already have standing orders that allow for the dispensing of naloxone without an individual prescription and other public health initiatives to increase naloxone access. FDA flagged five study limitations for the Advisory Committee’s consideration: The HFVS did not include participants in the 10-14 age group.

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Supply Chain Healthcare Professional Community IT 64

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Well, as a kick off to this year’s first in-person State of the Science plenary, held in conjunction with the closing Saturday session of the AAHPM/HPNA Annual Assembly, 3 randomized clinical trials were presented. Eric: I think about it as the first one to address individuals’ curative therapy. We’ve come so far as a field.

Consulting 115

Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115