GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

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.

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Hospice News

MARCH 1, 2024

Younger physicians are definitely more open [to it].” A growing body of research touts the benefits of palliative care for patients, families, and even providers. However, when evaluated through randomized clinical trials, the results tend to lean toward mediocre. “It’s not blood pressure.

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2023

Physicians in training need greater exposure to geriatric training in order to better grasp the needs of older patients, including during transitions to hospice, according to Dr. Julia Lowenthal, a geriatrician from Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

If you look back to some of my cartoons from late in residency, they showed just how dehumanized I felt and definitely give windows into how dehumanized I imagined my patients to be. And the hospital administrator says, “No, the hospital definitely values your contributions to the interdisciplinary team.

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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. He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life. This is Eric Widera.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Katz Professor and chair of the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Mount Sinai. We definitely need to invest more research dollars into understanding what the impacts are of different financial players and how that affects outcomes,” Hunt told Hospice News. Morrison is also the Ellen and Howard C.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. Summary Transcript Summary Often podcasts meet clinical reality. But rarely does the podcast and clinical reality meet in the same day. Lynn Flint, author of the NEJM perspective titled, “Rehabbed to Death,” joins Eric and I as co-host.

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

Nikki Davis: I’m a nurse practitioner and have been working in geriatrics and palliative care for about 21 years now. This article is based on a discussion with Anthony Spano, Director of Client Development at Netsmart and Nikki Davis, Vice President of Palliative Care Programs at Contessa Health.

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Hospice News

JUNE 9, 2022

I am an acute care and adult and geriatric certified nurse practitioner. If you think about that in terms of the elderly population and the population that’s up and coming, with the disability, chronic illness, and serious illness that affects them, there’s definitely going to be a huge need for palliative care.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

Today we have the honor of interviewing Susan Block, MD, one of the pioneering leaders in the fields of palliative care, particularly psychosocial aspects of palliative care. Eric: So Susan, very big thank you for joining us on this podcast. We’ve got a lot to cover. But before we do, we always start off with song requests. Susan: I do.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

I’m an internist by training and practice for close to 25 years now in a spectrum of medicine from hospital-based care to more recently, geriatrics, hospice, and palliative care. This discussion took place on September 7, 2023 during the Hospice News ELEVATE Conference. Daniel Schwartz: It’s a pleasure to be here representing Elara Caring.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

In the US, geriatrics “grew up” as an academic profession with a heavy research base. Clinical growth of geriatrics programs has lagged academic research, despite the rapid aging of the population. . Summary Transcript Summary. This was in part due to the tremendous support of the National Institute on Aging. By diagnosis?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

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. Wallace, C.L.,

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

Furthermore, direction to external websites is not an endorsement from AAHPM or HPNA, or the Annual Assembly. Palliative Care the Next Generation: How the Service May Grow and Evolve AccentCare , a portfolio company of private equity firm Advent International, is another example. We’ve got a very large palliative care practice,” Rodgers told PCN.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Summary Transcript Summary. In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team social worker. But are we really taking full advantage of ALL social workers have to offer our field? by: Anne Kelly, LCSW, APHSW-C. Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Barbara: Yay.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Jennifer’s study is most widely known for the “kicker” – not only did it improve quality of life, palliative care was associated with a couple months longer survival. . Areej’s study is remarkably novel in that it is, to our knowledge, the first study of palliative care during curative treatment. . hint: coping). Celine Dion. Transcript.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Sharon Brangman, who is a SUNY Distinguished Service professor and chair of the Department of Geriatrics and director of the Center of Excellence for Alzheimer’s Disease. The field of geriatrics has been, I would say, somewhat negative on these drugs. Nate, is it you? Jason: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

A recent Human Rights podcast discussed the story of a Canadian seeking MAID because he could not afford to stay housed. We talk about how Canada got to this point, including the degree to which offering MAID to anyone who is eligible has become standard practice in many places. Bill, welcome back to GeriPal. Bill: Thank you.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Don, welcome to GeriPal. Don: Thanks for having me, Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Abby Rosenberg, who’s Chief of Pediatric Palliative Care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Director of Palliative Care at Boston Children’s Hospital and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

They’re going to get older, they’re going to struggle with geriatric conditions, and they’re going to need palliative services and eventually end-of-life care. It was built in 1955, so it wasn’t designed for a geriatric population. I’ve known Michele a long time, since the Joint Medical Program.

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GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Chrissy Kistler, who is a geriatrician researcher in the Department of Family Medicine and Vision of Geriatrics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Scott: The listeners are probably well aware that urinary incontinence is one of the kind of classic geriatric syndrome. Scott: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

Alex: We are delighted to welcome Ramona Rhodes, who is a geriatrician and palliative care doctor, and member of the Board of Directors for the American Geriatric Society. Alex: And speaking of the American Geriatric Society, we are delighted to welcome Nancy Lundebjerg. Eric: And Alex, who do we have with us today? Ramona: Thank you.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

Alex 00:20 And we’re delighted to welcome in studio Lingsheng Li, who is a geriatrician and palliative care doc and currently a t 32 research fellow in the UCSF division of Geriatrics. And I think what, you know, for when I was there, the asian american veterans, it definitely came up during our visits. Geriatrician?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary Last week we talked about a trial of a nurse and social worker outpatient palliative care intervention published in JAMA. See also our accompanying editorial , first author Ashwin Kotwal who joins today as a co-host, and a podcast I recorded with JAMA editor Preeti Malani). Alex, who are our guests today?

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

That idea or that definition. So I think understanding the definition that the person in front of us has in relation to the word that they’re using is a really good jumping point, because we make a lot of assumptions in medicine and even in palliative care, hopefully trying to be more informed around our communication.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

We talk on this podcast about potential uses of AI in geriatrics and palliative care with natural language processing guru Charlotta Lindvall from DFCI, bioethicists and internist Matt DeCamp from University of Colorado, and prognosis wizard Sei Lee from UCSF. Sei Lee is Professor of Medicine at UCSF in the division of geriatrics.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. Who do we have with us today? Katie, welcome back to GeriPal. That was from our what?

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

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. Ashwin, can you give us a broad overview of how you think about social isolation and loneliness as far as definitions?

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

On today’s podcast we talk with three experts on buprenorphine on why, when, and how to use it in serious illness. And if you want to learn more about buprenorphine from these amazing palliative care clinicians and others, check out of some of these articles: Learn more about caring for those with substance use disorder: . Transcript.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

She’s Professor and Vice Chair for Research at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine. Alex: We’re delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Krista Harrison, who is a Health Policy Researcher, an Associate Professor of Medicine, UCSF Division of Geriatrics. Lauren: Hi.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Today we learn more about coaching from 3 coaches: Greg Pawlson, coach and former president of the American Geriatrics Society, Vicky Tang, geriatrician-researcher at UCSF and coach , and Beth Griffiths, primary care internist at UCSF and coach. Led the American Geriatric Society. Eric: Let me go to the definition real quick.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary One marker of the distance we’ve traveled in palliative care is the blossoming evidence base for the field. Ten years ago we would have been hard pressed to find 3 clinical trial abstracts submitted to the annual meeting, much less high quality randomized trials with robust measures, sample sizes, and analytics plans.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

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. I think I’m heartened by the fact that over the last decade or so, the definition of advance care planning has evolved. Susan: Thanks so much, Alex. Welcome back, Bob.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

How do you talk to them about these terms and these definitions? Naomi 14:50 I definitely think, and I love Jane, how you keep coming back to the moment, because that’s all we have. Alex 00:15 We are delighted to welcome Jane deLima Thomas, who was a co-fellow with me back in the day in palliative care. Thanks for having me.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

J Palliat Med. J Palliat Med. J Palliat Med. The last time this happened to me I immediately went on the defensive despite years of training in serious illness communication skills. Afterwards, I thought there must be a better way. Foundations for Psychological Thinking in Palliative Care: Frame and Formulation. doi:10.1089/jpm.2021.0256

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Because I don’t think we think about that so much in palliative care, but we do in geriatrics. I’m definitely scared of when he’s going to be driving soon. As is the case for many issues in geriatrics: some of the time, not all the time. Emmy: Thank you so much for having me. Eric: Okay. Is it you, Emmy?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

I’d hazard that maybe half the patients I care for at the intersection of geriatrics and palliative care fall in the gray zone. And one quibble with that of course is that we think the definition of capacity is that it’s task and context specific. Welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Emily. Welcome back, Anne. Welcome back, Lynn.

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