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. We talk with Nick and Meg about: Why hearing loss is important not just in geriatrics but also for those caring for seriously ill individuals.

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Dr. Michael Bazel

APRIL 29, 2025

For too many men, however, routine checkups and health screenings tend to fall by the wayside — often until symptoms become unavoidable. Why Preventive Care for Men Matters Preventive care isn’t just about treating illness when it arises; it’s about staying one step ahead of it.

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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. Emily 06:11 Yeah, we definitely have a pill for every ill. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. You know, we got to prevent cancer. We got our pink ribbons. Learned a lot.

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Mesa Family Physician

JUNE 11, 2025

Preventive Care: Your First Line of Defense Against Illness When it comes to your health, waiting until something goes wrong isn’t the best approach. Instead, adopting a preventive mindset can help reduce your risk of illness, improve long-term outcomes, and even limit the need for more serious interventions. Are they the same?

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

We then walk through how we should screen for anxiety and how we should think about a differential. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson have no relationships to disclose. Guests Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson have no relationships to disclose.

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GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

We’ll discuss three recent clinical trials involving patients with serious illness, joined by our guests James Downar , Ali John Zarrabi , and Margaret Ross. We’re going to be talking about new research in psilocybin in serious illness. So when they do meet it, how are you going to be in relationship to it?

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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. Panelists Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin have no relationships to disclose. It’s me.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

During these years, our focus shifts to screening for common adult-onset conditions, managing stress-related health issues, and helping you maintain optimal health despite professional pressures. At Mesa Family Physicians, we understand the demands on your time and offer flexible scheduling options to accommodate busy professionals.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 23, 2024

It’s where you turn for regular check-ups, advice on staying healthy, and help with managing any chronic illnesses like diabetes or hypertension. Primary care doctors don’t just treat illnesses—they work to prevent them before they even occur. A family pediatrician. Primary care is your go-to for all things health-related.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

During these regular appointments, doctors conduct various tests and screenings to catch issues early. These services go beyond treating illnesses; they aim to keep you healthy in the first place. Building a relationship with your primary care doctor should be a priority. It's not quite an emergency, but you need relief fast.

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Doctor Rachel

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

And even more than avoiding illness, being aware of what our bodies are trying to say gives us power and insight in our lives, work, and relationships. For more vitality, exercise more, reduce your screen time, sleep more, and drink less caffeine. Should I be in this job, this relationship, this house, this city?

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Adventures of a Sick Doctor

JUNE 5, 2021

I glanced at the screen occasionally to watch the wonderful new President Dr Ina Kelly and her colleagues deliver their speeches. I abandoned the Weetabix-encrusted bowls and sat in front of the screen, head in hands. There was a Milligan-esque relief in these counselling sessions – “I told you I was ill”. What the actual fork.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

As she said, when you think about the hardest patients you’ve cared for, in nearly all cases there was some aspect of psychological illness involved. Today we talk with two psychologists who are deeply invested in addressing psychological aspects of care for people living with serious illness. That rings true to me. That’s a lot.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. Panelists David Bekelman, Lyndsay DeGroot, and Diah Martina have no relationships to disclose. In their communities?

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The Physicians Foundation

MAY 20, 2025

The Physicians Foundation announces the 2025 recipient of the Drivers of Health (DOH) Fellowship Program, urges physicians to screen patients for DOH BOSTON, May 21, 2025 – Today, The Physicians Foundation reinforces its efforts to help physicians address drivers of health (DOH) to improve a person’s overall health. As the U.S.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

GeriPal post on “fast food” style palliative care in chronic critical illness. I had it on my screen. Areej: So when I was in college, I had a close friend who had a serious illness and actually died as a result of cancer. Additional links: Editorial on Areej’s study. Palliative care in lung and GI cancers. Transcript.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

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. We and many others have tried to come up with a short, validated screening tool.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

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. It really depends on the person, their relationship, what’s going on.”

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

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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Edge Family Medicine

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Personalized Health Guidance A physical exam isn’t just about checking for illnesses—it’s also an opportunity for your physician to offer advice on healthy lifestyle changes. Strengthening Your Doctor-Patient Relationship Building a relationship with your healthcare provider is key to effective care.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

Jenny Chen is a palliative care fellow at Yale who regularly sings for her seriously ill patients. Relationships are usually more complicated. You might see me on the TV screens next year. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Look for Jenny to potentially appear on the show Americas Got Talent (no lie).

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

Eric: I’m looking forward to talking about art and humor in palliative care and we’re caring for seriously ill patients. 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. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Nathan.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

nursing homes grapple with serious illnesses, and roughly half experience dementia. The reason that you’re in a nursing home is because you have some mix of serious illness and multimorbidity, usually functional impairments. We can’t possibly provide enough care to all people with serious illness. right there.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

It is a screening? Lexy: The domains were meaning and purpose, relationships, transcendence and peace, and self-worth and identity, and we developed those. ” And you start entering into a conversation about support or relationships and things of that nature. And the screening questions would just allow you to know that.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

We also explored several questions with them, including how to define trauma, its prevalence in older adults, the impact of past traumatic experiences, the potential triggers of trauma screening, and the application of trauma-informed principles in clinical practice. Which may not be necessarily traumatizing. Mariah 23:02 Right.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. Like I said, the patient screened positive for it. Ashwin Kotwal: Oh, wow.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

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. We know that a lot of times with cancer screening, you don’t actually get benefits right away and it can cause potential harms right away.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And so we worked closely with a community advisory group who, through focus groups, told us how it was that black and white individuals with serious illness had wanted to be treated. They wanted you to be respectful of their cultural beliefs and their, you know, faith beliefs that were driving their health and illness. Marie 11:03 Yes.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Panelists Kate Courtright and Scott Halpern have no relationships to disclose. And PAIR stands for the Palliative and Advanced Illness Research Center. So, Alex, imagine you’re a seriously-ill hospitalized patient and I’m your doctor, unluckily for you. Did they screen charts? and consulting for Papa Health.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Alex: Their own death in advance, terminally ill people. So one of the criticisms is that it’s an insult to the dignity of a loving relationship. So that’s what I don’t like when people are like it’s an insult to the dignity of a loving relationship, like really. Holly: In advance. Or do we have any?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

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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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Poetry helps us grapple with our own experiences of illness. 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? But for some of us, it might be an I, vow relationship to a connection with beauty, nature, the waves, the sea turtles, the lava.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

Eric 18:59 What is the recommendation currently for HIV screening in older adults or in non older adults? Or is the aging process and development of serious illness so similar to people who are not living with HIV that we can sort of move on and consider it, you know, sort of like diabetes, for example. Who wants to go first?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 1, 2023

And the two were sort of intermeshed even to the point in the eighties, the thought was all dementia is Alzheimer’s or it’s some medical illness or combination of other stuff that’s not about it. That’s in my view as analogous as to any other illness. You need the plaques to have that illness.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

These screening measures help identify conditions in their earliest stages. From childhood vaccinations to adult boosters and seasonal flu shots, immunizations prevent millions of illnesses annually. They have eradicated or dramatically reduced many diseases that once caused widespread suffering and death.

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GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

Eric: All right, before we start talking about COVID in older adults and those with serious illness, do you have a song request for Alex? I’m wondering if we can start off with thinking about the prevention of COVID in older adults and those with serious illness and then potentially the management of them. Eric: I loved all that.

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