GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Screening for addressing hearing loss should be an integral part of what we do in geriatrics and palliative care, but it often is either a passing thought or completely ignored. How to screen for hearing loss. COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. Alex: Great story. Is that right?

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IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

And I think of the analogy of, like, cancer screening. The stopping the cancer screening doesn’t have that same sort of momentum. I’m an internist, so when I hospitalize patients, 1 in 8 of my patients now takes pregabalin or gabapentin. Eric 20:51 And your deprescribing was on hospital discharge. in the U.S.

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Specialization IT Patient-Centered Medical 119

GeriPal

JULY 27, 2023

Alex: Here, I thought it was just like a relationship tension and breakup song. I think the classic example is somebody who just came out of the hospital, they’re put on these new medications because they were having problems in the hospital and now they’re home and they don’t need those anymore. Cathy: Yeah.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

During these regular appointments, doctors conduct various tests and screenings to catch issues early. They also provide immunizations and lifestyle advice tailored to your specific needs. Building a relationship with your primary care doctor should be a priority. But when should you consider visiting an urgent care clinic?

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GeriPal

JUNE 23, 2022

Cancer screening is designed to detect slow growing cancers that on average take 10 years to cause harm. The benefits of mammography breast cancer screening rise with age, peak when women are in their 60s, and decline thereafter. This is about cancer screening in older adults. Summary Transcript Summary. Mara: Thank you so much.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. And yet, after assisting the older adult to their feet, the EMS providers would leave. I think, as providers, we don’t get to see that.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Analyzing the Health and Retirement Study, she found 60% of older adults screened positive for depression in the last year of life (related study here ). Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Panelists Elissa Kozlov and Desiree Azizoddin have no relationships to disclose. Or is it that I’m just not screening?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

You can also listen to an audio interview with Alex and JAMA Deputy Editor Preeti Malani about this study and the other RCT of default palliative care for hospitalized older adults with noncancer serious illness published in the same issue. Panelists David Bekelman, Lyndsay DeGroot, and Diah Martina have no relationships to disclose.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

After discussing screening options for substance use disorder, we go on to talk about both the treatments for it and the issues that arise. Panelists Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin have no relationships to disclose. I mean, the simple answer is, yes, we should be screening people for substance use disorder.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

I’ve worked in hospital settings as an occupational therapist, inpatient rehab and outpatient rehab. Emmy: I was seeing people in the hospital setting, saying they had had a massive brain injury. Emmy: Ended up starting a program, outpatient at our hospital at the time. How did you get interested in this? Eric: Yeah.

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Families IT Family Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

But you worry that the advance directive does not provide enough guidance for the specific decision at Yael Jo, do you. So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. It doesn’t provide enough guidance for the clinicians to make decisions.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 109

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

When we started doing more music stuff for our patients in the hospital, a lot of people started to think, hmm, what would I want to listen to? So our inpatient hospitals are kind of under resourced for music therapy. It’s something that has no place in a hospital in most people’s thinking. Tyler 01:43 Okay.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Panelists BJ Miller and Naomi Saks have no relationships to disclose. ” So there’s this element too, of what’s suffering in relationship to others, and can we compare? It’s the relationships to the world. Pain Manag Nurs.

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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. I had it on my screen. Jennifer: They have a meaningful impact on what happens to them during the hospitalization and after. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Jennifer.

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Because a lot of my colleagues, who are like transplant coordinators for example, are asking, “Can you help us better screened for which older adults would be fit enough to go for transplant? There’s really no added extra resource or time that the coordinators really need to put to doing the screening, themselves.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

This week, we talk about the other major palliative care trial of default palliative care consults for hospitalized older adults with COPD, kidney disease, or dementia, published in the same issue of JAMA. Panelists Kate Courtright and Scott Halpern have no relationships to disclose. and consulting for Papa Health.

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Consulting Hospital Patient-Centered IT 121

GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

I’m going to share my screen and we can talk about that. And I’m just going to explain it to our listeners, what I’m seeing on my screen. So for those listening to the podcast, this is a clown looking very sad and what looks like a hospital administrator. Eric: And this one just came out.

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IT Hospital Patients Illness 145

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

And so they’re in there for a very short time, couple weeks, get a little bit stronger and transition home after a hospitalization. So usually they’ll make recommendations, maybe some medication adjustments or something like that, and then the provider that’s caring for them in house will take over from there.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

On the other hand, all of our guests agree that chaplains are often the most vulnerable to being cut from hospital and health system budgets. It is a screening? Lexy: The domains were meaning and purpose, relationships, transcendence and peace, and self-worth and identity, and we developed those. These studies are important.

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IT Patient-Centered Families Family 99

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Check out some of their recent work, including: Dr. Holt-Lunstad’s and Dr. Perissinotto’s powerful perspective piece in the New England Journal of Medicine which provides a clinical framework for addressing loneliness and social isolation. But then recognizing that our relationships impact our health even outside the context of stress. .”

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IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 99

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Trauma is a universal experience, and our approach as health care providers to trauma should be universal as well. And we often do, as healthcare providers, care for people who are going through traumatic events, through just being sick in the hospital or a home or dying at home.

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Patient-Centered IT Individual Screening 67

GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. So when they do meet it, how are you going to be in relationship to it? We dedicated team working with cancer and palliative medicine in our hospital. Some of them also had psychiatric or psychosocial oncology providers as well. James, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 107

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Marie 03:08 So, living in Alabama, which is our palliative care desert in the south, there were no palliative care services in any of the small rural hospitals. We went to a hospital in Mississippi, one in Alabama, and one in South Carolina. By then they usually were out of the hospital actually. Eric 10:25 And who was included?

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Consulting Community Patient-Centered Families 63

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

And really providing these estimates of how long a person has to live affects a lot of the decisions we have to make clinically. So if you can think about certain decisions like continuing to screen for certain cancers like colon cancer or breast cancer, or how strict you should control diabetes or blood pressures. James: Yeah.

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IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

GeriPal

MAY 29, 2025

This is, you know, has to do with our personal relationship. From perhaps the most sensitive instrument that we can get the family members report, while at the same time trying to sort of screen out potential false positives that are due to false hope or something like that. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

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Families Family IT Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

And so we do see hospital admissions for heat exposure and certainly cardiovascular and respiratory problems related to air pollution with climate change and also cognitive problems. What do we do to very concretely provide heat shelters and cool shelters? And there are so many things that can be done to address climate change.

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Healthcare IT Education Community 129

GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

And when she was here, she co founded the Golden Compass Clinic at San Francisco General Hospital for older adults living with HIV. Have been now a care provider for people with HIV for over 40 years. Is that what you’re seeing as a palliative care provider now or. Meredith, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Provider 94

GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

To the deeper emotions – of loss and grief, of wonder and transcendence – that are at the heart of the complex care we provide. This is a poem that gets into this issue of, what is the clinician relationship to all that stuff that’s going on around us? So my only question is what my relationship will be to suffering.

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Patient-Centered IT Community Illness 93

GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

“Typically when we think about conscience in medical ethics we think about it in terms of a negative claim of conscience, where a clinician refuses (or objects) to provide care. Lisa was writing about providing abortion care, but she just as easily could have been writing about providing medical aid in dying in states where it is illegal.

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Provider Medical Hospital Patient-Centered 19

The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 2, 2023

[link] CPSolvers: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 21 – Psychosocial and Cultural Considerations for Providing Healthcare to Immigrant and Refugee Populations Show Notes by Kiersten T. A lot of compounding trauma occurs at the border that has potential downstream mental health implications for individuals and their families.

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Healthcare Provider Clinical Practice Clinic 52

GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

We’ve lived through lockdowns, toilet paper shortages, mask mandates, hospital surges where ICU’s overflowed, a million COVID deaths, prolonged school closures, development and roll out of novel vaccines, an explosion of social isolation and loneliness, and the invention of the “zoom meeting.” . But hospitalizations are low.

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Vaccination IT Hospital Management 100

FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Below, we provide a snapshot of the three-day event: Update on the International Medical Device Regulators Forum (IMDRF). To paraphrase from our blog post , EUAs are triggered by an EUA declaration; FDA will publish advanced notice for an EUA declaration and provide a 180 day notice before the implementation of the transition plan.

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