GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

We talk on this podcast about potential uses of AI in geriatrics and palliative care with natural language processing guru Charlotta Lindvall from DFCI, bioethicists and internist Matt DeCamp from University of Colorado, and prognosis wizard Sei Lee from UCSF. Sei Lee is Professor of Medicine at UCSF in the division of geriatrics.

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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! To learn more about CME for other GeriPal episodes, click here.

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

Daneila Lamas wrote about this issue in the New York Times this week -after we recorded – in her story, a family requested an herbal infusion for their dying mother via feeding tube. We discuss an article they wrote about PULET for the American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, including: What makes a PULET a PULET?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Eric 02:37 Feeding the beast, Matthew, feeding the beast [laughing] Alex 02:41 All right, here’s a little bit. 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.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

In 1988, Cruzan’s parents requested that her feeding tube be removed, arguing that she would not want to continue in this state. On the one hand, this was unfortunate, as it meant Nancy Cruzan could not be disconnected from the feeding tube immediately. In 1990 the Supreme Court ruled…for the state of Missouri.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

On today’s podcast we dive into drivers of invasive procedures and hospitalizations in advanced dementia by talking to some pretty brilliant nursing and nurse practitioner researchers focused on dementia, geriatrics, and palliative care in nursing homes: Ruth Palan Lopez, Caroline Stephens, Joan Carpenter, and Lauren Hunt. Rehabbed to Death.

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GeriPal

MAY 29, 2025

Hospice nurses know that terminal lucidity is a thing and have pretty much all seen it Family and caregiver stories of lucid episodes and what they meant to them, including early glimpses into a study Andrea is doing using video to capture episodes and show them to family. So that would be how I would describe what lucidity looks like.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team social worker. Whether in direct practice or in research and academia, we should work together to help Hospice and Palliative Care Social Work meet its full potential. . And you feed the medicine in.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary On today’s podcast, we’ve invited four hospice and palliative care social media influencers (yes, that’s a thing!), We’ve invited: Julie McFadden (aka Hospice Nurse Julie ): Julie is a social media superstar, with 1.5 And then Hospice Nurse Julie. Julie McFadden goes by Hospice Nurse Julie.

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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. He, his Twitter feed though is brilliant. Eric: Yeah. Alex: Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Or when it progresses – will hospice pay? I remember as a fellow, I would come in and our nurse practitioner on our hospice team, I would say the word narcotics, and f or half an hour, she would just lay into me. Who follows the patient once the cancer goes into remission? Who will prescribe the buprenorphine then?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. I’ve had people dying on hospice that don’t have pain. Eric: Yeah.

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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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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

I see them in your hospices, Tom. So, she was in a pathetic stage and she had no way of coming and seeing the mother because she had to feed the children from her earnings. Rajagopal appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. They are there. She had no money for a bus fare.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

And I told her I quote LaVera every year when I teach the geriatrics fellows, the palliative care fellows, I would love for you to tell the story that I quote because you experienced it. Alex: I just want to note for our listeners, I told LaVera this when we just had a conversation a couple weeks ago before doing this podcast.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Particularly with patients in our hospice unit who are often not on IV fluids, getting dehydrated, getting ever-escalating doses of IV Dilaudid. But honestly, right now in our hospice unit, once I start getting into higher and higher doses, I recognize earlier on that just pouring more of the same in often is not the best approach.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

However if you want to take a deeper dive, check out his website “ The Ink Vessel ” or his amazing twitter feed which has a lot of his work in it. And then, “I call hospice giving up.” After days of discuss my patient decided to go home on hospice with her family, no tracheostomy, no respirator. Transcript.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

He’s been a hospice and nursing home director. And whether tube feeding should be on there, that’s never an emergency decision. A lot of them ended up having functional limitations that made that if they came from home, they ended up going to a nursing facility or hospice. Welcome, Abby. Abby: Thanks for having me.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome Meredith Green e , a friend, a geriatrician, researcher, associate professor at Indiana University, who was previously with us at UCSF in our division of geriatrics. Eric 00:50 So we’re going to be talking about HIV and geriatrics and palliative care. But to kind of ease us into it.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Alex 00:54 And Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who’s a social behavioral scientist and a fellow in the T32 Research Fellowship at the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. Sydney 06:45 So I’ve been Developing and running palliative care and hospice programs at Hopkins for about 25 years. So intubation, cpr, feeding tubes.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And every time I do palliative care and I think I want to jump ahead, like somebody says, “Oh, so and so wants hospice. Can you just talk to him about hospice?” ” Inevitably, it’s always when I jump to hospice, they’re all, “Wait, what’s hospice? Get the hospice referral.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

Would such ethical guidelines foster or feed suspicion of the motivations of bioethics? . He has an interest in hospice and of life care, pain management and medical ethics. And so we had a grant in 1980, right before the first AIDS patients came, to start a hospice unit. We could have talked for hours. It’s bigger.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Is hospice appropriate for people with serious mental illness (and does hospice have the skills to meet their needs?) Dani 15:30 I think, I mean, I think really anything that is a choice like hospice or an express like hastened wish to death. In Hospice, you don’t have to consent. Is that right. Eric 35:53 Yeah.

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