GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition. Ann: Thank you.

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1-800-HOSPICE

MARCH 28, 2023

The Importance of Prognostic Conversations In response to research revealing the importance of prognostic conversations and low patient recall of prognostic conversations, Margaret Isaac, MD and Randall Curtis, MD outlined a systematic approach for this patient communication. 2 Patient recall of prognostic conversations can be poor.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

Today we talk about these issues with Bill Gardner, a psychologist at the University of Ottawa who is living with cancer, Leonie Herx, a palliative care physician at the University of Calgary, and Sonu Gand, a psychiatrist at the University of Toronto and former president of the Canadian Psychiatric Association. Bill: Thank you.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary The CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain excludes those undergoing cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. Jessie Merlin is an addiction and palliative care physician, and professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. Who do we have with us today?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

More recently Sharon Kaufman ‘s book And a Time to Die described the ways in which physicians, nurses, hospital systems, and payment mechanisms influenced the hour and manner of patient’s deaths. Eric and I are joined today on this podcast by Anne Kelly palliative care social worker to discuss these issues with Liz.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

She has won the N H P C O Hospice Innovator Award in 2018, and she was the 2015 International Humanitarian Woman of the Year. Kimberly, in the q and a just asked, what is the difference between hospice and palliative care? Palliative care works with people who have life threatening illnesses, but who want to continue trying treatment.

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