GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

We have Sarah Nouri, who is a palliative care doc and researcher at UCSF. Alex: And we have Hillary Lum, who is a geriatrics and palliative care researcher at the University of Colorado. Van Scoy who is a pulmonary critical care advance care planning researcher at Penn State Hershey Medical Center in Pennsylvania.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

So I think there’s definitely overlap with that, but I think helping patients cope, make priorities, think through their goals and values early and along the illness course does facilitate and enable better end of life decision making, including advanced care planning.

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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. Let them have this one piece of joy left, which is their opioid use disorder”, which, by definition, is not bringing them joy, right?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

There was a little bit of teaching about end of life care. And for example, there’s still in most medical schools no required rotation in palliative care. I think there’s data that shows that there have been improvements in end of life care. And there was some teaching about pain.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The experts settled on a range of key services, from more palliative care focused (e.g. end of life care and advance care planning) to more geriatrics focused (e.g. staff training in person centered care). It’s what happens in lots of different fields, including geriatrics. Welcome back.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

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’m going to turn to you Lauren.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Alex: Also returning Rebecca Sudore, who is professor of medicine at the UCSF in the division of geriatrics, and is a geriatric and palliative care doctor. I think I’m heartened by the fact that over the last decade or so, the definition of advance care planning has evolved. Welcome back, Rebecca.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

She’s a medical anthropologist with an interest in culture of end of life care, among other things, and she has a book that is out called Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Mara. Mara: Thanks for having me. Eric: So, this is an interesting podcast, Alex. Alex: Please.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

In the US, geriatrics “grew up” as an academic profession with a heavy research base. 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. I was always critical care bound since medical school.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

You’d imagine that as a seasoned palliative care doc, I’d have a pretty good definition by now of what “maintaining dignity” or “loss of dignity” means, but you’d be sadly wrong. Well that all changes today as we’ve invited the world’s foremost expert in dignity at the end of life, Dr. Here’s a little bit.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

I’m the senior nurse educator at H C P, Speaker 1 ( 00:25 ): And you’re listening to Vision, the podcast for leaders and forward thinkers in the care industry. Today we’ll be discussing the importance of unifying the care continuum for end of life care. Speaker 3 ( 00:38 ): Hi, glad to be here.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

In this PONDER-ICU trial, we didn’t rely on palliative care specialists; we engaged bedside clinicians to have ICU communication and adhere to guidelines. Tom: Do you think they relayed that info to the primary care [inaudible 00:34:14]. Corita: They absolutely did. Tom: No, that makes sense.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

You might be able to extend your life a little bit, but at what cost? So, that was maybe 20 years ago at this point and it really got me down the road thinking about advance care planning, end-of-life care, and similar consequences. Yep, for geriatrics? We’re available, palliative care.

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

This really is patients with serious chronic life limiting illness who are hospitalized. Eric: How’d you define serious chronic life limiting? Bob: We used a set of nine conditions that have been used by the Dartmouth Atlas Project to study end of life care. I think you had to be age over 55.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Alex: We are so fortunate to be joined by one of my former mentors who I’ve known for 20 years, Holly Prigerson, who is now Irving Sherwood Wright Professor of Geriatrics at Weill Cornell Medical School and Professor of Sociology and Medicine and Director of the Center for Research on End Of Life Care.

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