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. We had tried to actually select people who didn’t have a serious illness. Marian: Thank you.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. So we’re going to be today talking about serious illness palliative care in the homelessness population. I’ll just throw out there people with serious illness experiencing homelessness.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Love to talk about also in the serious illness population. Or somebody who has other physical cognitive problems at any age. Emmy: So that older person or person with maybe terminal illness or developing impairments, it might make sense for them to just keep driving because they don’t have a good replacement.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Eric 07:08 Which of the patients that you think you’re helpful for, you want referrals? So folks that are having refractory ascites or refractory encephalopathies, challenging emotional symptom management as well. Eric 11:05 So is there a trigger or what’s your referral criteria for the outpatient clinic?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

And I think that there is room for shortening the duration if your patient is non-immunocompromised and not severely ill. So I think there are caveats and if you have a non immunocompromised, not severely ill patient that has again defervesced, then there is room for reducing the duration to three days for community acquired pneumonia.

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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Fox gives patients hope there may be a place that illness doesn’t touch Depression is a Liar Why is Being a Patient Such a Difficult Pill to Swallow Better Patient Care Calls for a ‘Platinum Rule’ to Replace the Golden One. Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that. So there are three primary domains.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

On todays podcast, weve invited Nathaniel Chin back to the GeriPal podcast to talk about what primary care needs to manage this new world of Alzheimers disease effectively. So I get all the referrals from my great colleagues in primary care. And I gotta manage their blood pressure and their diabetes meds. Nate 14:25 Oh.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

But now we have older people dying of older people illnesses. We really like the community doctors to know, so those of you listening, that our patients, they’ve lost their physical freedom, but they have autonomy in terms of their medical decision-making just like anybody else. The person didn’t believe in the medications.

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Families Family IT Community 133

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

We welcome all professions, including but not limited to physicians, chaplains, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, case managers, administrators, and pharmacists. Some more assessment also potentially some interventional around total pain, including spiritual suffering that actually may worsen physical pain.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. Alex 12:36 And most of our listeners are like clinician, practicing clinicians caring for older adults, people with serious illness.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 120

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Juliet and Rachelle are two of the authors of a recent JAMA viewpoint titled “Shifting to Serious Illness Communication.” . Also see the image below from Alex’s editorial in JAGS , a Venn diagram of advance care planning and serious illness communication. Shifting to Serious Illness Communication. Transcript. What is it?

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 98

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Eric 01:13 So we got a lot to cover today on sexuality, sexual health and serious illness. So we got a lot to cover on sexuality, sexual health, and serious illness. I think this is a topic we don’t talk about as much in the context of serious illness. Don, welcome to GeriPal. Don 01:11 Thank you so much.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Alex 02:44 Still suffering from some illness from there, which is why I was sick and not in the office with Eric today. Ideally the conversation would happen before, but also clinicians were able to make referrals to facilitators. Like, how close to the end of life is it all just in seriously ill patients, I guess.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

Eric: We’re going to be talking about telemedicine for those who have serious illness, and this came out of a recent publication Carly did in the San Francisco Chronicle titled Telemedicine Helps People in Pain, Don’t Take That Away. So we’re going to be talking about telemedicine, telehealth for people with serious illness.

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