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! She directs UCSF MERI’s patient, family, and clinician support with classes and consultation on resiliency, well-being, and grief. Anne, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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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.

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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 might include their practices and affiliations, which may be religious or not. Good night, everybody.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Dani and Kery present three steps for interacting with an angry patient: Look within: What is this anger bringing up in me? It’s just so interesting the myriad of ways that this can present in our behavior when we neglect to just look within. Dani: Yeah, so the way you presented was triggering to them. Keri: Yeah.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

I think this is actually bread and butter geriatrics. And then there’s this other time, and this gets to the geriatric patients, where you’re adapting to change and loss and then it’s a new normal that you’re trying to adapt to. And so, that’s what we learned from them. This is a blind spot for me.

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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. And then there’s all those gold standards that I mentioned earlier, meaning making connection, prosocial emotions, processing grief. So that’s really important. I am not the one.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 32:22 Geriatrics Palliative Care Podcast. And so I think one thing we really like about not having it scripted word for word is the opportunity to kind of flex into that moment and just be present and kind of try that out. The daughter was filled with anticipatory grief, regret, and anger. Emily 32:24 There we go.

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

Alex Smith 10:59 As Alex was talking, it reminded me of a concept that may be familiar to our geriatrics listeners about disability and ableism. As I cycle through these things, what I find is I’m suddenly extremely present. And thinking about how we can get into that space with them and meet them in that space. Eric 10:57 Yeah.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

JUNE 6, 2024

Being present for the deaths of my father and a dear friend early in my residency deeply impacted who I became as a doctor and as a person. Years later, when I was a geriatric fellow, he gave me another gift by asking me to review James Hallenbeck’s remarkable book Palliative Care Perspectives for the Journal of Palliative Medicine.

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Our guests today present an important rejoinder to the argument that we should refocus away from advance care planning (ACP). Complicated grief? Alex: And we have Hillary Lum, who is a geriatrics and palliative care researcher at the University of Colorado. Did the caregiver feel heard and understood?

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

He, there’s so much focus given to bereavement and grief as well, and he fears that again, there’s just not enough thought giving to what that dying person themselves is going through, whether they’re afraid to die with any secrets surrounded by platitudes. Speaker 2 ( 15:52 ): Here’s another really good question.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

You’d imagine though that our professional expertise and experiences in helping patients and families cope with loss and grief would be helpful in managing our own personal losses. A great website for dealing with loss and grief : refugeingrief.com. Loss is the thing that triggers grief and then we talk about grief.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

And I would tell him not to underestimate the grief that he is going to experience. Darrell: But for me personally, I actually got involved with David Kessler’s organization in Southern California, and went through a grief educators program for him. Darrell: First, I would say this is not going to be over in 90 days.

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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. Even if we found a positive effect, I think we’d have to be very tentative about how we presented the implications. Danny 00:52 Thank you very much. Excited to be here.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Everything from normative reactions like exist anticipatory grief to comorted psychiatric illness like depression, anxiety, ptsd, which we know is really prevalent in our populations, out to sort of patients with severe psychiatric comorbidities which we probably drop the ball on more. I think it’s very present in maid.

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