GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Justin Sanders wants to be sure the newer generations of palliative care clinicians understand the early principles and problems that animated the founders of hospice and palliative care, including: Origins of the word palliative – its not what I thought! Ive got a name. No, you dont need to be Canadian. Canadians are welcoming.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary In the early 1990’s, California Medical Facility (CMF) created one of the nation’s first licensed hospice units inside a prison. Keith per many reports, is the heart and sole of the hospice unit and oversees the Pastoral Care Workers. Eric: Wait, so Bonnie Raitt sang a song about hospice in prison?

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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

MARCH 6, 2025

link] Kensington Hospice & ‘Radical Love’ Equity-Oriented Hospice Palliative Care Naheed Dosani also serves as the Medical Director of Kensington Hospice, Torontos largest hospice. And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. People who.

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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. In the hospice unit that I work in, what we see sometimes is people are on, like, 20 different medicines.

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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. The post Obstacles and Opportunities for Palliative Care in the ICU appeared first on Hospice News.

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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. So it’s all volunteer.

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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. So we go to churches, we go to hospice agencies, we go to public libraries, we go to health systems, sort of anywhere. 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

OCTOBER 26, 2023

That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. We additionally discussed hospice care as an option for care that might follow the trial of rehabilitation. Many of them aren’t enrolled in hospice before they die. That’s the problem. What are other options?

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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. Eric 34:23 Yeah, I just learned challenges of when discharging people to hospice on. You mentioned hospice, though.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

She went to an inpatient hospice and they kept her comfortable for a couple of weeks and she passed away. 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. Samir: Yeah.

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High Peaks Hospice

MARCH 1, 2022

High Peaks Hospice would like to honor our Medical Director, Dr. Curt Gedney for National Doctors Day by sharing information about him with the team. This church member who participated in the board meetings, events, and more was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and shortly after, passed.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

In this episode, we share the joy of talking with Wendy MacNaughton (artist, author, graphic journalist) and Frank Ostaseski (Buddhist teacher, author, founder of the Metta Institute and Zen Hospice Project) about using drawings and images as tools for creating human connections and processing death and dying. Thanks for having me.

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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

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

And I gotta say, like, I’ve been doing hospice and palliative care for nearly two decades. Whereas in cultures that practice cremation properly, it’s a public event full of ceremony and ritual and expectation. We get a lot in geriatrics and palliative care. This emergent reality that someone we love has just died.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Eric 20:26 And that includes home hospice care. Additionally, in case patients didn’t step up, we did have sort of events where they were scheduled to see palliative care. You sort of had a month after all of those events. Eric 27:07 Month of that event, did they also see inpatient palliative care? That is correct.

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GeriPal

MARCH 16, 2023

You write a scholarly article in geriatrics, it’s not dissimilar. And I think when groups like JAMA or JAG or the leaders of the American Geriatric Society say we have to call everyone older adult, they’re doing a disservice to all of us. Eric: Yeah, Jimmy Carter goes into hospice. So I think it’s important.

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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 25, 2024

First, we have James Deardorff, who’s a geriatrician and assistant professor at UCSF in the division of Geriatrics. Eric 04:39 Yeah, I see it used on inpatient, side on consult clinics in hospices. It is appropriate for all patient populations, and it is developed specifically for the palliative care and hospice populations.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

We have Vickie Leff who’s Executive Director of the Advanced Palliative and Hospice Social Work Certification Program and also teaches in the UNC School of Social Work. So people are less able to have the language when the loss event actually happens. Eric: And Alex, who do we have with us today? Loss is different than grief.

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