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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

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. I want to say like 2017, 2018, something like that. Alex: Yeah.

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

And so the definition of advance care planning really switched in, I think, 2017, 2018, there was kind of a United States definition and then an international consensus definition. And every time I do palliative care and I think I want to jump ahead, like somebody says, “Oh, so and so wants hospice. Get the hospice referral.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

” The 61 million people globally, who are in serious health related suffering as estimated by the Lance commission of 2017, are preferably unheard. So, though the Lands Commission brought up the phrase, serious health related suffering only in 2017, I realized that’s what we were treating. I see them in your hospices, Tom.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

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. 2017 podcast. Who do we have with us today? Katie, welcome back to GeriPal.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

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.

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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

GeriPal

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.