GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Alex 00:12 We have a guest host who has requested this episode, Matt Shuster, who’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc. And also I was in the HVMA primary care program. People’s goals are often much more than, you know, perfect management or heart failure, even living as long as possible. Eric 12:21 Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

But as a first year resident trainee at the University of Toronto, I cared for a young man in his early 30s while working in a shelter. He was a person with schizophrenia, he was a person who used drugs and he presented in pain crisis to our shelter. We have world class primary care, cancer care, palliative care.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

To start with assessing all these syndromes and palliative care related problems and geriatric syndromes, so that we can create interventions that allow people to receive the cutting edge therapies. Fortunately, I am at an institution where they value patient-centered care and they give us that extra time. Well, I do it personally.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

It’s like breaking bad news in palliative care. 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. And the primary care provider had assumed he was no longer driving, I think. Absolutely. Emmy: Yeah.

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

As a general practitioner and primary care researcher, it was always fascinating for me to delve into the scientific literature to investigate this issue. The following graph shows the striking difference in premature mortality between countries with weak or strong primary care: 2. Here are the key results.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

As you know, our population is aging at a rapid speed and older, adult older persons is no longer cared for only by a geriatrician or a primary care physician. There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

So we looked at hospital referral regions, and we looked at high- and low- intensity regions. It improves symptom management. That’s what nursing and nursing homes should be really, really good at: is providing nursing care that creates comfort. Physicians often not present except for an occasional monthly visit.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Today we are delighted to welcome Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, and Danny Scerpella, who conducted a pragmatic trial of advance care planning (ACP) in primary care practices; and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who wrote an accompanying commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine. Jennifer, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Sydney 00:41 Thank you.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Areej 03:50 So at the state of the science, I was actually presenting a study that was focused on addressing sexual health concerns in transplant survivors, and I actually told the story of the state of the science for those of you who were there. So most of us in primary care, it’s probably even worse.

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