Traditions Health

MAY 1, 2023

Eventually, all the muscles that a person can control are affected, forcing the person to use a ventilator and/or feeding tube. ALS is usually characterized by pain, muscle twitching or spasms, stiff muscles, or excessive drooling (caused by weak chin muscles), and later difficulty talking, swallowing, and breathing.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

And importantly, our social worker, Aunt Kelly, actually does a search and I would say 75% of the time she finds somebody maybe even higher than that, finds somebody who’s actually a surrogate. Let’s say they’re in the ICU now on a ventilator. To have a social worker who’s dedicated in many places.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary In May we did a podcast on KidneyPal (the integration of palliative care in renal disease) , which made us think, hmmm… one organ right next door is the liver. Maybe we should do a podcast on LiverPal? (or or should we call it HepatoPal?) Alex 00:12 This is Alex Smith. Eric 00:13 And, Alex, who do we have with us today?

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Clinical growth of geriatrics programs has lagged academic research, despite the rapid aging of the population. . Palliative care, in contrast, saw explosive growth in US hospitals. The National Palliative Care Research Center (NPCRC)and Palliative Care Research Cooperative (PCRC)were founded in part to meet this need. By diagnosis?

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

The fact that my cartoons, thanks to social media, I’m able to sort of get them out there in front of people. Heck, I’m not even sure to call it a podcast, as I think to get the most out of it you should watch it on YouTube. Why, because today we have Nathan Gray joining us. His work has been published in places like the L.A.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

And that helped them focus on that instead of, say, the blood pressure, the vasopressors or the ventilator settings that day. Summary Transcript Summary One marker of the distance we’ve traveled in palliative care is the blossoming evidence base for the field. They study palliative care. Welcome, Corita and Kate and Tom. Kate: Thank you.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Don, welcome to GeriPal. Don: Thanks for having me, Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Abby Rosenberg, who’s Chief of Pediatric Palliative Care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Director of Palliative Care at Boston Children’s Hospital and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Eric: Yeah.

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