GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

So we’re going to have a link to the article that you published in JAMA IM titled The Hospital Culture and Intensity of End-of-Life Care at Three Academic Hospitals. And I was interested in intensity of end-of-life care and differences in intensity of end-of-life care. Liz: Right.

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

We have Sarah Nouri, who is a palliative care doc and researcher at UCSF. Alex: And we have Hillary Lum, who is a geriatrics and palliative care researcher at the University of Colorado. Van Scoy who is a pulmonary critical care advance care planning researcher at Penn State Hershey Medical Center in Pennsylvania.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

What we did was ask clinicians earlier in the ICU stay for very sick patients to document prognosis, and for those who they thought would survive, to document six-month functional prognosis. That’s a pretty big palliative care study. And also leveraging that idea that we all have these biases. Eric: 3,500 people.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

So if I remember that study correctly, so it was a randomized control trial that was published in the New England Journal of palliative care plus usual care, versus just usual oncological care. I entered this field wanting to actually optimize end of life care for patients with blood cancers. Jennifer: Yep.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

We covered some of our questions on the podcast, others you can ponder on your own or in your journal clubs, including: Maries tele/video palliative care intervention was tailored/refined with the help of a community advisory board. We followed patients until they died or the end of the study period, whichever came first.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary The CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain excludes those undergoing cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. It’s not well-documented. Who do we have with us today? Katie, welcome back to GeriPal. Devon: Right.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

You might be able to extend your life a little bit, but at what cost? So, that was maybe 20 years ago at this point and it really got me down the road thinking about advance care planning, end-of-life care, and similar consequences. Yep, for geriatrics? We’re available, palliative care.

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High Peaks Hospice

MARCH 1, 2022

He stopped in to request information and instead received an immediate call back from who would turn out to be the most formative person in his life, David Weissman, MD, the founding Director of the Geriatric and Palliative Medicine program at the medical college.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

You said something about your research in this area this morning pertaining to views of that term, end of life or end-of-life care. Alex: Well, let me just ask one more, sticking with this, Karen. I wonder if you could say a little bit more about that. Karen: Sure.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

How did you get interested in end-of-life care, palliative care, and some of the work around dignity that you are really well known for? So it can create a generativity or legacy document, that will be given to that individual so they can bequeath it to loved ones. Here’s a little bit.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

That just takes time and being present, and we don’t have the luxury of as much time, unfortunately, as other end-of-life doulas do. In fact, I worked for senior care options payer-provider in Massachusetts, where I am coupled end-of-life care from hospice back in 2009.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Potential that care received, though potentially burdensome, was in fact aligned with goals, and might represent goal concordant care. Potential that documenting advance directives without a robust conversation about prognosis might have led to these findings. Jennifer 17:26 Documentation of end of life preferences.

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

They found a difference of 4% in documented goals of care discussions. At its heart, it’s always been a brief, hopefully one page document that can be delivered to clinicians and or patients to get them thinking about topics related to goals of care discussions. This was just really in your usual documentation.

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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 this actually happened just a few minutes away from where I was practicing geriatrics medicine as a part of my fellowship.

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