GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

To delve into these questions, we spoke with Hope Wechkin, medical director of EvergreenHealth home hospice, who authored an article describing a process of Minimal Comfort Feeding (MCF) for patients who have expressed an interest in not wanting to live with advanced dementia. Eric 01:13 Yeah, you got to jump in. Take it over.

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

We and our guests have noticed that in our clinical practices, patients and caregivers seem to be asking for such treatments more frequently. Daneila Lamas wrote about this issue in the New York Times this week -after we recorded – in her story, a family requested an herbal infusion for their dying mother via feeding tube.

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GeriPal

MAY 29, 2025

Hospice nurses know that terminal lucidity is a thing and have pretty much all seen it Family and caregiver stories of lucid episodes and what they meant to them, including early glimpses into a study Andrea is doing using video to capture episodes and show them to family. So that would be how I would describe what lucidity looks like.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

On today’s podcast we dive into drivers of invasive procedures and hospitalizations in advanced dementia by talking to some pretty brilliant nursing and nurse practitioner researchers focused on dementia, geriatrics, and palliative care in nursing homes: Ruth Palan Lopez, Caroline Stephens, Joan Carpenter, and Lauren Hunt. Rehabbed to Death.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

And one of the most common things that I would hear from patients, family caregivers would be I’d ask them at the end of the encounter, “What questions do you have?” For GeriPal, it’s really to bring geriatrics and palliative care together. laughter] Eric: Well. It just flows so naturally.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

And I told her I quote LaVera every year when I teach the geriatrics fellows, the palliative care fellows, I would love for you to tell the story that I quote because you experienced it. Alex: I just want to note for our listeners, I told LaVera this when we just had a conversation a couple weeks ago before doing this podcast.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

However if you want to take a deeper dive, check out his website “ The Ink Vessel ” or his amazing twitter feed which has a lot of his work in it. And this caregiver saying, “I don’t know how much longer I can do this. We go through a lot of his work, including some of the comics below. Transcript. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

And whether tube feeding should be on there, that’s never an emergency decision. The post POLST Evidence and Update: Kelly Vranas, Abby Dotson, Karl Steinberg, and Scott Halpern appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. But yeah, full treatment. Karl: Okay.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome Meredith Green e , a friend, a geriatrician, researcher, associate professor at Indiana University, who was previously with us at UCSF in our division of geriatrics. Eric 00:50 So we’re going to be talking about HIV and geriatrics and palliative care. But to kind of ease us into it.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Alex 00:54 And Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who’s a social behavioral scientist and a fellow in the T32 Research Fellowship at the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. And I have a long interest in identifying family caregivers and supporting them in care delivery. I’m hearing family and caregivers. Excited to be here.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

There is a patient caregiver relationship that evolves over time, and there’s less of a focus on intimacy in that relationship. The post Sexual Function in Serious Illness: Areej El-Jawahri, Sharon Bober, and Don Dizon appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

Would such ethical guidelines foster or feed suspicion of the motivations of bioethics? . Eric: This is a geriatrics and palliative care podcast and we’re talking about reproductive rights, abortions, looks like we’re talking about medical aid in dying, all encompassing this question of rights of conscious. It’s bigger.

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