Events Geriatrics Nursing home Palliate 
GeriPal
JUNE 22, 2023
Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. They’re going to get older, they’re going to struggle with geriatric conditions, and they’re going to need palliative services and eventually end-of-life care.
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! Alex: And we have Ab Desai, who’s a geriatric psychiatrist in Idaho. Judy Long, MDiv, BCC , palliative care chaplain and educator at UCSF and caregiver. Alex: Great.
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GeriPal
JANUARY 26, 2023
Second, as we discussed in last week’s podcast , older adults, particularly those in nursing homes, were far more likely to die than younger individuals. Alex: We are delighted to welcome Ramona Rhodes, who is a geriatrician and palliative care doctor, and member of the Board of Directors for the American Geriatric Society.
GeriPal
JULY 27, 2023
We have Brienne Miner who is a geriatrician and sleep specialist and assistant professor at Yale in geriatrics. Alex: And we have Cathy Alessi, who is a geriatrician, Director of the Geriatrics Research Education and Clinical Care Center at the VA, greater Los Angeles and Professor of Medicine at UCLA. Brienne: Thank you for having me.
GeriPal
OCTOBER 26, 2023
That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. Summary Transcript Summary Often podcasts meet clinical reality. But rarely does the podcast and clinical reality meet in the same day. Lynn Flint, author of the NEJM perspective titled, “Rehabbed to Death,” joins Eric and I as co-host.
GeriPal
OCTOBER 27, 2022
She’s an epidemiologist and assistant professor of medicine in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. Alex Smith: And we’re delighted to welcome back James Deardorff, who is a geriatrician and research fellow in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Alex. Alex Lee: Thank you. Happy to be here.
GeriPal
OCTOBER 13, 2022
I think what we are starting to find with antibiotics, especially in older adults, is with increasing duration as well as increasing dose, older adults are especially susceptible to adverse events associated with the drugs as well as other risk factors like C. difficile infections. Lona: Absolutely. Eric: Can I touch on the last study?
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