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To Care Or Not

StorytellERdoc

I dedicate this to each of you who have cared for or are currently caring for an ill parent or family member. Although this may seem like it should be the standard, you would be surprised at just how many elderly patients present to our emergency department alone. And the ripples from these relationships travel far.

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Telehealth vs In-Person Palliative Care: A Podcast with Joseph Greer, Lynn Flint, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson

GeriPal

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. The patient refuses to ever talk about the fact that this illness could take their life.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

Summary Transcript CME Summary Many older adults lose decision-making capacity during serious illnesses, and a significant percentage lack family or friends to assist with decisions. So those types of relationships, clergy, non family members, we talk about, I think cohabitating unmarried couples. Yael 30:29 Exactly.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

Love to talk about also in the serious illness population. 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. So we’re trying to help replace the transportation option. Absolutely.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Laurie Dornbrand has no relationships to disclose. People would present with horrible opportunistic infections, not just pneumocystis pneumonia, but CNS infections with toxoplasmosis and wasting syndrome, of course. They were seriously ill and had a chance to get to know.

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

GeriPal

So I think just as much as we focus on the science and the evidence, it’s important to think about the art of how we apply that to people and the relationships and all of the great fun stuff, the stories that unfold in the exam room alongside the science itself. Eric 04:44 Yeah. And I gotta ask Emily, is that why you started Nocturnist?

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