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. In doing so, we can effectively “palliate” clinicians and our patients! Who has most influenced your work and how have they shaped your contributions?

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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. ” Eric: Nice. So I agree.

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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., In Donesky, D.,

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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

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

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. Eric 00:05 And Alex, who do we have with us today? Because I think we have someone special, a guest host.

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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

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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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

MARCH 9, 2023

Psilocybin, the most commonly used psychedelic, increases heart rate and blood pressure, which may potentially lead to cardiovascular events. Legalization is moving forward in several states , following the lead of Oregon and Colorado. Potential use in palliative care , chronic pain , and for mood disorders is tantalizing.

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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. I forgive you.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

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. Jane, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Jane, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Jane 00:37 Thank you so much for inviting me. Ishwaria, welcome to GeriPal. Ishwaria 00:59 Such a pleasure to be here. Thanks for having me.

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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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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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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. Judy Long, MDiv, BCC , palliative care chaplain and educator at UCSF and caregiver. Alex: Great.

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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: But I’m talking about-. Joel: Talk about it. Alex: You probably did, yes. Joel: Yeah.

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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

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. Eric: And Alex, I have a feeling I’m going to love this podcast.

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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. Alex: We are delighted to welcome Jacky Kruser, who’s a pulmonary critical care doctor and health services researcher at the University of Wisconsin. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Bob: The fish.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary If palliative care was a drug, one question we would want to know before prescribing it is what dose we should give. Give too little – it may not work. This is Eric Widera. Alex This is Alex Smith Eric A nd Alex, who do we have with us today? Jennifer 00:44 Thanks. Chris, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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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 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. Justin: Hello.

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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. Eric: Yeah.

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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

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

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

APRIL 21, 2022

In the first podcast, we talked with Guy Micco and Marilyn MacEntyre about poetry and aging. In this second part in our series, we welcome Mike Rabow and Redwing Keyssar to talk about palliative care and poetry. . As with aging, poetry operates on multiple levels within the palliative care space. . Poetry puts us in our patient’s shoes.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

In today’s podcast, we had the opportunity to learn from a renowned expert in palliative care, Eduardo Bruera, about cachexia and anorexia in serious illness. He’s a palliative care doc and oncologist. He’s chair of the department of Palliative Rehabilitation and Integrative Medicine at MD Anderson Cancer center.

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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. To start us off we talk with Kara Bischoff about the article she just published in JAMA Network on a re-validation of the Palliative Performance Scale (PPS) in a modern day palliative care setting. Why do this?

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

So people are less able to have the language when the loss event actually happens. And we’ve been really private of doing the research of really doing the deeper thinking about what the loss event happens during the loss event and how we can impact how grief is experienced later. Alex: This is Alex Smith. Happy to be here.

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

Randy died February 26, 2023. We begin today’s podcast asking his co-authors Erin Kross, Bob Lee, and Ruth Engelberg, all from the University of Washington and the Cambia Palliative Care Center of Excellence, to reflect on Randy and his dedication to seeing this work completed while living with ALS. Erin, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

So if you already have a condition, you might be able to prevent events. And I think that’s something that we can really focus on, especially with geriatric patients. Not just about like we think in geriatrics training, it was about like, you had one category about, like, obesity, in one category about inadvertent weight loss.

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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. And I tend to think of writing as my version of public health. ” Or something.

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