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Summary Transcript Summary The comprehensive geriatric assessment is one of the cornerstones of geriatrics. But does the geriatric assessment do anything? Evidence has been mounting about the importance of the geriatric assessment for older adults with cancer, the subject of today’s podcast. Precision medicine?
Summary Transcript Summary What does the future hold for geriatrics? Historically, answers generally lamented the ever increasing need for geriatrics without a corresponding growth in the number of specialists in the field. On today’s podcast, we are going to do a deep dive on the future of geriatrics with three amazing guests.
Our focus today, however, was on her most recently published book titled How to Say Goodby e. This beautiful book began as a very personal project for Wendy while she was the artist-in-residence at Zen Hospice. You may know Wendy as the talented artist behind Meanwhile in San Francisco or Salt Fat Acid Heat. She has a TED talk.
But wait, before you throw out that equianalgesic table, we also invited Dr. Mary Lynn McPherson, PharmD extraordinaire who published this amazing book, Demystifying Opioid Conversions , 2nd Ed., Until the second edition of my book, that is. Drew: She updated an equianalgesic table and published that in the second edition of her book.
I first met Thomas when he visited UC Berkeley in the late 90’s after publishing his book, “ The Undertaking: Stories from the Dismal Trade.” He is the author of six collections of poems and six books of essays, and he has a book of short stories and a novel forthcoming. Pennies on the eyes to keep the lids closed.
– Anticipatory corpse book mentioned several times on the podcast. And again, to step back and look at the bigger picture, there’s a book that I wrote, or I didn’t write it, goodness, I read it in my intern year, by Jeff Bishop. And when I read that book my intern year, it possessed me. All the time. ;).
Though his narrow definition of suffering as injured or threatened personhood has been critiqued , the central concept was a motivating force for many of us to enter the fields of geriatrics and palliative care, Eric and I included. Today we talk about suffering in the many forms we encounter in palliative care.
Her most recent book is Dementia Friendly Communities: why we need them and how we can create them . Her most recent book is Creative Care: a revolutionary approach to dementia and elder care . Her most recent book is Creative Care: a revolutionary approach to dementia and elder care . Anne, we heard about this book.
We’re also delight to welcome Carla Perissinotto, who is a geriatrician palliative care doc at UCSF in the division of geriatrics. I moved to Baltimore in 2015 and did clinical fellowship in geriatrics. This paper was published recently in the Journal of American Geriatric Society Lead. Welcome back to the GeriPal podcast.
On today’s podcast we talk with Jason Karlawish, who we’ve had on previously talking about his book The Problem of Alzheimer’s and with Aaron Kesselhim, to discuss FDA approval of Aducanumab , as well as frequent guest and host Ken Covinsky. . So I allow family members to be present if they want them to. Wait, what ? .
Alex 01:27 We’re delighted to welcome back Tim F a rrell, who’s a geriatrician, associate chief for Age Friendly care at the University of Utah and chair of the American Geriatric Society Ethics Committee. All right, and finally we have Yael Zweig, who is a geriatric nurse practitioner at NYU. Tim, welcome back to GeriPal.
You’ve written in a lot of places, including your own books. I felt like I was always told to present people with a buffet of options and, really, without guidance, ask them to choose, which is, it would always make me feel sick to my stomach. Eric: The Hidden Harms of CPR. Sunita: There we go. Alex: Thank you.
David is a physician who wrote the book “ Stoned: A Doctor’s Case for Medical Marijuana ” and gave a TED talk on “ A Doctor’s Case for Medical Marijuana ” that was watched over 3 million times. And, David, I’m going to start off with you because you wrote an entire book about this. Eric 06:53 I loved your book.
That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. But one of the things I’m really interested in is people have agency and autonomy, so we can present them with the scenarios of best case, worst case, and they will always choose what’s most important to them.
Alex: Also returning Rebecca Sudore, who is professor of medicine at the UCSF in the division of geriatrics, and is a geriatric and palliative care doctor. But when you’re asking someone to make a decision about code status, you’re asking them to make a decision that is in effect right now in the present, right?
Many links: VA Presents: My Life, My Story: George: A Voice To Be Heard on Apple Podcasts. So I allow family members to be present if they want them to. And by the way, Harvey has a brand new book out Dignity and Care. Another, students presenting says the patient has had below the knee amputation times two.
And so in that way, it’s not the letterhead or the four walls and the roof that are perpetuating the present, it’s the people. So when we were working on this book, intentionally interprofessional, we found such strong evidence that the team itself, simply being in a team, is protective. It’s completely protective.
AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)
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Being present for the deaths of my father and a dear friend early in my residency deeply impacted who I became as a doctor and as a person. Years later, when I was a geriatric fellow, he gave me another gift by asking me to review James Hallenbeck’s remarkable book Palliative Care Perspectives for the Journal of Palliative Medicine.
Alex Smith 10:59 As Alex was talking, it reminded me of a concept that may be familiar to our geriatrics listeners about disability and ableism. As I cycle through these things, what I find is I’m suddenly extremely present. And thinking about how we can get into that space with them and meet them in that space. Eric 10:57 Yeah.
Alex 00:15 We are delighted to welcome back Louise Aronson, who’s a geriatrician and author in the UCSF division of Geriatrics. Her most recent book is Elderhood. He made it very clear that he called me by looking my number up in the phone book. Eric 00:13 And, Alex, who do we have with us today? His hands were gone.
She has presented at regional and national meetings on a variety of topics related to serious and advanced illness as well as operation of community-based programs and has served on the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) Task Force for Quality, and on the Home-Based Workgroup for the Center to Advance Palliative Care.
I am constantly talking to clinical social workers about what are the ways that you can be contributing to research, to publications, to scholarship, to presentations, even if it’s a reflection paper? Barbara: … to conduct the research, write the paper, do the thing that creates a publication. And sometimes we have to rethink it.
It is a fact though that, and I think Jeremy Greene nicely documents this in his book Prescribing by Numbers, that a variety of diseases, particularly diseases that exist along pathophysiological pathological dimensionality, are in part defined by drugs. Jason: Welcome to the world that we live in. Welcome to the world that we live in.
Summary Transcript Summary Sometimes you read a book and get a flash of insight – that “ah ha!” It helped me to understand and justify my interest in (this won’t surprise you) EVERYTHING related to geriatrics or palliative care. Also hat tip to Matthew Growdon for recommending the book. Please shop locally.
This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. I’m going to turn to you Lauren.
He has a book, which I have read, Facing Death, and we will discuss Facing Death: Spirituality, Science, and Surrender at the End of Life. I think this is actually bread and butter geriatrics. I had a chance PSA, got diagnosed after a biopsy and it was like I read about in the book, it just blew the walls out of my house.
end of life care and advance care planning) to more geriatrics focused (e.g. AlexSmithMD (still on Twitter at present). Alex: And we’re also delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast Kenny Lam, who’s assistant professor of medicine at UCSF in the Division of Geriatrics. staff training in person centered care).
If you’re an agency who also provides pt, OT of speech pathology, registered nursing at home, geriatric management, that’s a wonderful thing. Brett Ringold ( 21:34 ): And home care providers are just one piece of the larger puzzle. Our agency is strictly a personal care agency. The best way is by email, check my email constantly.
That was the lesson I learned from reading a new book edited by Matt Loscalzo along with Marshall Forstein called “ Loss and Grief: Personal Stories of Doctors and Other Healthcare Professionals ”. Matt, tell me about the book that you just published. ” And we began this edited version of this book. Alex: Great choice.
These realizations led Barbara to sit down and write, gone from my site, the little blue book that has changed the hospice industry. We love this book, especially me, I like to show off my copy. I, I think people are a lot more open to that idea of somebody who’s not healthcare affiliated being present.
So take a listen and if you are interested in learning more, check out these wonderful links: Harvey’s latest book is called, Dignity in Care: The Human Side of Medicine Intensive Caring: Reminding Patients They Matter Michael J. And who’s a latest book is Dignity and Care: The Human Side of Medicine. I’m fully present.
Check out other must-read articles here Shauna has a Diploma in Nursing from Kangan Batman TAFE and more than 8 years’ experience working within various healthcare fields including Geriatric, Community, Oncology, and currently as a civilian nurse contractor in the Defence environment. Having one that is also a nurse is even more beneficial.
Additionally, here are some of the resources we talked about during the podcast: Eduardo Brueras editorial that accompanies the JAMA paper titled Improving Palliative Care Access for Patients With Cancer Our podcast on Stepped Palliative Care with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar The book What’s in the Syringe?
Every member of the team, even for me, for whatever reason, that switched me from focusing on trying to be in pulmonary critical care to become actually a geriatrician, choose the geriatric fellowship. There’s a book called The 36-hour day for dementia caregivers. And it became a terror for me. It has multiple prints and updates.
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