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

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

JULY 6, 2023

Alex: And we are delight to welcome Lindsey Yourman, who is a geriatrician, she’s a longtime friend and mentee, and is now a peer and is a key component of the ePrognosis working group and helped originate the ideas that led to ePrognosis and she’s now San Diego County’s Chief Geriatrics Officer. Welcome to GeriPal, Lindsey.

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GeriPal

JULY 27, 2023

We have Brienne Miner who is a geriatrician and sleep specialist and assistant professor at Yale in geriatrics. Alex: And we have Cathy Alessi, who is a geriatrician, Director of the Geriatrics Research Education and Clinical Care Center at the VA, greater Los Angeles and Professor of Medicine at UCLA. Brienne: Thank you for having me.

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Chicago Caregiving

JUNE 29, 2023

Step One Learn about what’s going on Start with a clear understanding of your loved one’s medical condition and care team, says Julie Fohrman, a gerontologist who founded North Shore Geriatric Care Management in Lake Forest. Talk to their healthcare providers, research conditions, and seek support groups.

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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 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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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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Chicago Caregiving

JUNE 16, 2022

Adults age 65 and older visit the emergency department three times more often for medication-related adverse events than younger adults do, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. . Taking too many medications increases the risk for adverse drug reactions — a particularly acute problem for older adults.

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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

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Abhilash Desai, MD , geriatric psychiatrist, adjunct associate professor in the department of psychiatry at University of Washington School of Medicine, and poet! Alex: And we have Ab Desai, who’s a geriatric psychiatrist in Idaho. She created TimeSlips which we talk about in our podcast. Anne, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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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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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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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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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

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

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

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

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

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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High Peaks Hospice

MARCH 1, 2022

This church member who participated in the board meetings, events, and more was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and shortly after, passed. Admiral Senn later was admitted and ultimately passed in the local VA hospital. His third exposure to death and dying was with a very active member of the church.

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Chicago Caregiving

JANUARY 25, 2023

Cold weather health risks “As we age and experience the changes associated with aging, it leaves us more vulnerable to cold,” says Ryan Bartkus, MD, a geriatric medicine specialist with Ascension Alexian Brothers in Elk Grove Village. Let’s start with the cold. The layer of heat-preserving fat below the skin thins out as people age.

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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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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

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

MAY 19, 2022

But I think people would have an embolic event if you gave them a flipping range. The post Rethinking Opioid Conversions: Mary Lynn McPherson and Drew Rosielle appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. So, it’s exactly what I have in the chart.

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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

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

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

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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Minority Nurse

JANUARY 17, 2024

She’s also an Affiliate Faculty member of the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing (HIGN), where she serves as Co-Director of the HIGN Scholars Program, an Affiliate Associate Professor at Howard University College of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences, and a Volunteer Associate Professor for the State University of Haiti.

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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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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 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

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Because those experiments show that the actor being targeted, lipids for example, is part of the causal pathway to an undesired event. I do think that creates a little bit of disquiet where the borders between the expert physicians will decide what is a disease, freed of all conflicts, simply is a historical event. Jason: Yeah.

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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

JULY 28, 2022

The post Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. ” Right? Eric: Thank you Archstone Foundation for continuing support and to all of our listeners.

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