GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Summary Transcript Summary. In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team social worker. But are we really taking full advantage of ALL social workers have to offer our field? by: Anne Kelly, LCSW, APHSW-C. Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Barbara: Yay.

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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. Rhymes with mullet (On the podcast we debate using the French pronunciation, though it sounds the same as the French word for chicken). Eric 05:39 Yeah.

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Hospice News

APRIL 15, 2025

We presented these statistics to our product team and eventually implemented an allergy interaction evaluation system at the point of entry. Every call or message creates a case that feeds into our newly developed dashboard. We are committed to enhancing the customer experience with our dedicated training and quality teams.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

I’m wondering if we can think about that structured approach if I just present the case and how you all would think about it from a trauma informed. Alex 00:03 This is Alex Smith. Eric 00:04 And Alex, we have somebody in the room with us. Alex 00:07 We do. We have Anne Kelly, who’s back with us today. Welcome back, Anne.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

How does the geriatric assessment lead to improved completion of advance directives, when the assessment doesn’t address advance care planning/directives at all? How does palliative care fit into all this? Precision medicine? What groups are being left out of trials? Welcome to GeriPal, John. John: Thank you. Alex: Terrific.

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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

For a deeper dive, check out some of these other studies and resources we talked about in the podcast: The Influence of Nursing Home Culture on the Use of Feeding Tubes. The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. Rehabbed to Death. Transcript. Bring it on.

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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. I think at the age of 91, a patient should have a say, really, in terms of, hey, I can present you with some of the reasons I think we should make a switch, but what do you think? He’s in Boston.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

It’s going into an intensive care unit and getting feeding tubes and ventilators and all this stuff that isn’t going to change anything. I recently asked one oncologist what he thinks about palliative care, and he said, “I sort of look at my role with the patient is to present the glass half full, meaning treatment.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

And so in that way, it’s not the letterhead or the four walls and the roof that are perpetuating the present, it’s the people. 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.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Today we have a star-studded lineup, including Lexy Torke of Indiana University, who discusses her RCT of a chaplaincy intervention for surrogates of patients in the ICU , published in JPSM and plenary presentation at AAHPM/HPNA. It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Lexy.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

And for a few reasons, which I’m sure we’ll get into, I think it’s probably most effective upstream of the acute care setting, more in the nursing home setting or for patients who are not presenting in the hospital or emergency department setting. Welcome, Abby. Abby: Thanks for having me. We changed our name. Good to know.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

I felt like I was always told to present people with a buffet of options and, really, without guidance, ask them to choose, which is, it would always make me feel sick to my stomach. Alex: We are delighted to welcome Jacky Kruser, who’s a pulmonary critical care doctor and health services researcher at the University of Wisconsin.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

He, his Twitter feed though is brilliant. And so the key there is, of course these were prospectively measured where patients were called every month from 1998 through actually the present day among those who are still alive. That will be the last one in his life. Don’t thicken it, make sure he gets what he wants. Eric: Yeah.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 30, 2022

According to our surveys, caregivers with a lack of proper training on the subject find the following tasks the most challenging: handling violent or abusive behaviors, trouble communicating, challenging emotions, finding appropriate activities, and feeding/eating challenges. 7 popular topics are hitting the charts.

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Hospice Advantage Solutions

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

We have learned to express our love for one another through the act of feeding and sharing of meals throughout our lives. If a tumor is present, the edematous layer may shrink. Treatments considered to be palliative, on the other hand, cannot be withdrawn. Decreased gastric stimulation results in lack of hunger.

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Palliverse

MAY 7, 2022

Dad wanted to take her home, he knew that he could feed her food she would like, and that home rehabilitation could be considered. Despite Dad feeding her five small meals a day, she was shrinking fast. I presented the story of Mum’s life illustrated with photo slides, which included images of many of the funeral guests.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

So intubation, cpr, feeding tubes. Eric 19:31 So it was interventions like feeding tubes, mechanical ventilation, dialysis at the very end of life. Jennifer, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Jennifer 00:28 It’s great to be here. Sydney, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Sydney 00:41 Thank you. Sydney 06:37 Yes. Eric 14:18 Okay.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

Eric 00:04 And Alex, we got a lot to talk about today. Who are our guests? Peter, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. And when she was here, she co founded the Golden Compass Clinic at San Francisco General Hospital for older adults living with HIV. Meredith, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Meredith 00:48 Thank you, Alex and Eric.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

But one of the things that I try to teach, because both Juliet and I have done a ton of teaching about this, is that if you follow these steps, that outcome sort of presents itself. Summary Transcript Summary. There is a lively debate going on in academic circles about the value of Advance Care Planning (ACP). Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Areej 03:50 So at the state of the science, I was actually presenting a study that was focused on addressing sexual health concerns in transplant survivors, and I actually told the story of the state of the science for those of you who were there. Tell me, what did you talk about? She was off immunosuppression, her disease was in remission.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Butstay with us heremight AI help to address some of the major issues present in surrogate decision making? But I do think that there’s a tension here, which is that in order for these algorithms to work, you need to feed them a ton of data. And then you think, well, what kind of data are you feeding it?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary Weve talked a lot before about integrating psychiatry into palliative care (see here and here for two examples). Still, we havent talked about integrating palliative care into psychiatry or in the care of those with severe mental illness. On this weeks podcast, we talk with two experts about palliative psychiatry.

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