AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

JULY 1, 2024

Dr. Olusegun Apoeso was one of my attendings during my Geriatric Medicine fellowship at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in NY. Who has most influenced your work and how have they shaped your contributions? Sometimes, one person can inspire you to elevate your career into a calling. He is an excellent mentor and a wonderful friend!

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OCTOBER 13, 2022

I think what we are starting to find with antibiotics, especially in older adults, is with increasing duration as well as increasing dose, older adults are especially susceptible to adverse events associated with the drugs as well as other risk factors like C. difficile infections. Eric: That’s helpful. Tell me about this study.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The SAMHSA defines trauma as an event, series events or set of circumstances experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening, with lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional or spiritual. So there’s an event or a series of events.

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GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

We’re representing the American Geriatric Society today and we are delighted to be here in the podcast. So if you haven’t been to this event, there is a literature review where we. Nancy 24:04 So classic classic geriatrics keeping people functional, independent and at home with some very sensible intervention.

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Caregiver Support Services

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Try to avoid visiting during days when events are taking place, as you need to see a more natural day-to-day environment to gain insight into the normal operations in the facility. You may choose to visit during the daytime and see how staff members interact with the residents and one another. Final Thoughts.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

And then I did a geriatric orthopedic fellowship and that was really an exciting opportunity to help hip fracture patients, but then someone knocked on our door. Eric: What’s a geriatric orthopedic fellowship? So I got to help create one of the first geriatric orthopedic fellowships. Eric: Oh, that’s fabulous.

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Hospice News

MAY 15, 2024

The findings suggest that traumatized terminally ill patients may have a multitude of greater physical, psychosocial and emotional needs compared to others, according to researcher Dr. Ashwin Kotwal, assistant professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco’s (UCSF) Division of Geriatrics.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Take a stab, Alex, in one sentence, I think more total time bias is when the start time for one group doesn’t begin until some event happens and therefore they have to survive until that event. And that biases them because they’re immortal in a sense, until that event happens. Maria 36:03 Yes. Yes, that’s fair.

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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. ” Eric: Nice. So I agree.

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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. The same thing happens in geriatrics. Ramona: Thank you.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Alex: Today, we are delighted to welcome James Deardorff, who is a geriatrician and a T-32 research fellow in UCSF’s Division of Geriatrics. He’s a Geriatrician Palliative Care Clinician Researcher, also in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. So these are really relevant outcome events. James: Thanks for having me.

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

Psilocybin, the most commonly used psychedelic, increases heart rate and blood pressure, which may potentially lead to cardiovascular events. But patients have reported that they still recounted that event as something that was quite transformative and beneficial for them as well. Most participants are White and well-resourced.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

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. GeriPal podcast with Linda Fried on frailty.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

And in fact, as Alex mentioned in the intro, probably more than 20 years ago, Muriel Gillig asked me to help out with the geriatric modules at the Brigham women’s hospital primary care medicine sort of sessions. Matthew 04:21 Well, I actually have been teaching, doing sessions about polypharmacy for many years.

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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. Usually events open up some insight into the person themselves as they’re describing the suffering.

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Hospice News

MARCH 1, 2024

Obstacles facing palliative care in the ICU One challenge to bear in mind is that some of the measures used in the literature are imprecise due to the traumatic, emotional nature of the event. Families and decision-makers face an extremely difficult time when a loved one enters the ICU — potentially the worst time of their lives.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

It was like kind of a co op with this common space that different groups could rent for events and meetings and things like that. We have recently, for our larger events, and even not as large events, we have people send us their stories. Alex 32:22 Geriatrics Palliative Care Podcast. And that works really well.

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

Alex: And we have Hillary Lum, who is a geriatrics and palliative care researcher at the University of Colorado. We provide a $300 stipend for like food and marketing or whatever we provide all the materials needed for the event. And usually we want like 20 to 50 people to come to one of our group events. Sarah: Thank you.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

OCTOBER 10, 2024

With the resources available on APTA’s website, PTs and PTAs are encouraged to host community events such as fall risk screenings. Falls are the leading cause of injury among older adults and are a critical area where PTs can make a difference.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Alex Smith Links Link to the McGill National Grand Rounds Series on Palliative Care , Michael Kearney as initial presenter, and registration for future events. The post The Roots of Palliative Care: Michael Kearney, Sue Britton, and Justin Sanders appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. The post PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. He had overdosed due to a combination of alcohol and street drugs.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And I learned, so you have this wonderful paper that just came out in JAGS, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, titled Patients Living with Dementia Have Worse Outcomes When Undergoing High-Risk Procedures. Yep, for geriatrics? Alex: … pre-operative assessment? We’re available, palliative care. Samir: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. 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.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

She’s an epidemiologist and assistant professor of medicine in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. Alex Smith: And we’re delighted to welcome back James Deardorff, who is a geriatrician and research fellow in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Alex. Alex Lee: Thank you. Happy to be here.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

That we can’t predict when they’re gonna get sick or when they might go to the ED, when that big event may occur, but it’s also the uncertainty of who might be able to get transplanted. But I think for Liverpool, it’s not only the uncertainty, right. Brittany 15:07 Right. Like, it’s not an if, right?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

I think what we are starting to find with antibiotics, especially in older adults, is with increasing duration as well as increasing dose, older adults are especially susceptible to adverse events associated with the drugs as well as other risk factors like C. difficile infections. Eric: That’s helpful. Tell me about this study.

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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. It’s these activities that you’re talking about, these goals, these trips, these events, these meaningful activities. Summary Transcript Summary Often podcasts meet clinical reality. The post Palliative Rehab?!?:

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Eduardo 25:39 I think that’s wonderful, Alex, because all our social and even religious events have metaphors of food. We only measure tumor math that is very rudimentary to be able to tell us the risk for those events to happen. Or not just address, but reassure, but also recommend things like smaller meals, etcetera.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

But I think what I didn’t know was that when somebody makes a decision to get to a certain event that the work isn’t done then. The post The Language of Serious Illness: A Podcast with Sunita Puri, Bob Arnold, and Jacqueline Kruser appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Somebody had a hyperglycemic event, so we’re going to check daily, three times a day, blood sugar sugars on everybody. The post Well-being and Resilience: a Podcast with Jane Thomas, Naomi Saks, Ishwaria Subbiah appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

He’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc/researcher in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. So if you have say two similar patients who go to the ICU with COPD, both are an event, one lives for 27 days and dies in the ICU, the other one gets a palliative care consult and dies four days from hospital admission. Good to see you.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 8, 2024

Whereas in cultures that practice cremation properly, it’s a public event full of ceremony and ritual and expectation. Not an event planner, kind of a ritual planner, is that you’re the guide for the family, who often is dealing with this for the first time. We get a lot in geriatrics and palliative care.

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Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Strengthening and protecting the spine can help reduce falls, which often become a traumatic event for older adults. “Monitoring geriatric conditions and symptoms can aid in the prevention of falls,” she says, “while assessing nutrition could assist with promotion quality of life.”

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The NCOA provides a wealth of resources related to planning falls prevention events and provides tool kits for community engagement and team collaboration. The STEADI Initiative offers a coordinated approach to implementing the American and British Geriatrics Societies’ Clinical Practice Guidelines for fall prevention.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

But I think it’s artificial, as we’ve already shown in this conversation, to talk about that as a isolated event. The post Surgical Communication: A Podcast with Gretchen Schwarze, Justin Clapp and Alexis Colley appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 00:15 We are delighted to welcome back Louise Aronson, who’s a geriatrician and author in the UCSF division of Geriatrics. So in some ways, it was an iatrogenic event. There was also a second event in that the pressures chosen weren’t the ideal ones. Eric 00:13 And, Alex, who do we have with us today?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Alex 01:57 And we have Lingsheng Li who is a geriatrics and palliative care doc and illustrator and is currently a T 32 research fellow at UCSF. And what’s important about this for your listeners is that we begin to see that dying is not just a medical event, and we need to stop treating it as if it were just that.

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