GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

We talk on this podcast about potential uses of AI in geriatrics and palliative care with natural language processing guru Charlotta Lindvall from DFCI, bioethicists and internist Matt DeCamp from University of Colorado, and prognosis wizard Sei Lee from UCSF. Sei Lee is Professor of Medicine at UCSF in the division of geriatrics.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

Alex Smith: And we’re delighted to welcome back Alex Lee, who’s an epidemiologist and assistant professor at UCSF in the division of geriatrics. Nadine: I think for our geriatric friends that listen to the podcast, there’s a lot of discussion about de-intensifying management as people age. Happy to be here.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

And I told her I quote LaVera every year when I teach the geriatrics fellows, the palliative care fellows, I would love for you to tell the story that I quote because you experienced it. Alex: I just want to note for our listeners, I told LaVera this when we just had a conversation a couple weeks ago before doing this podcast.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

And I think part of the problem is for many people who are doctors, and I’m not talking to our palliative care geriatric audience, there is a sense of what it is to be a doctor is to fix things, is to save lives. Alex: A feeding tube. We’re giving some biologic information if they want it. I know, man, I just screwed up.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Janet: And you could put the liquid methadone in the feeding tube, can’t you? Eric: So you can use the tablets in the feeding tube, too. Janet: Then put it in the feeding tube if you can’t get the liquid. Alex: Ah, I have not tried that. Janet: Also, the pills dissolve completely. Eric: And then-.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

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

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Because, if anybody hasn’t seen it, you’ve got a great Twitter feed that gives tons of pearls on palliative care and a lot on communication. Speaking of pearls, should we move to Shunichi’s Twitter feed? Alex: Shunichi, your Twitter feed is like haiku. What motivated you to dive into this? Don’t use that.

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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. He, his Twitter feed though is brilliant. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Or the cases where someone actually said, “I never want a feeding tube.” Why did they choose to be DNR or not have a feeding tube? It’s kind of like the feeding tubes in advanced dementia. There has been a shift and that shift in the decline of feeding tube use in advanced dementia has been documented.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

So, she was in a pathetic stage and she had no way of coming and seeing the mother because she had to feed the children from her earnings. And her daughter can’t come visit her because she doesn’t have money for bus fare and her husband’s an alcoholic, demanding money from her and she has to feed her own children.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

Would such ethical guidelines foster or feed suspicion of the motivations of bioethics? . Eric: This is a geriatrics and palliative care podcast and we’re talking about reproductive rights, abortions, looks like we’re talking about medical aid in dying, all encompassing this question of rights of conscious. It’s bigger.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

Ariel: As we all know, as geriatricians in geriatrics research, people accumulate conditions and accumulate medicines over the years. ” So feeding them little soundbites that they might be able to take off the tip sheet and use if they had the opportunity. Eric: Now, that’s fabulous.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

And you feed the medicine in. Eric: I got another question then, feeding on that, thoughts on how we can promote leadership in palliative care social work. And I’ve had the opportunity to participate in a couple of models where we call it a flipped model, right, where you begin with what matters most to patients and families.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

And whether tube feeding should be on there, that’s never an emergency decision. The post POLST Evidence and Update: Kelly Vranas, Abby Dotson, Karl Steinberg, and Scott Halpern appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. But yeah, full treatment.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

However if you want to take a deeper dive, check out his website “ The Ink Vessel ” or his amazing twitter feed which has a lot of his work in it. The post Comics and Humor in Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nathan Gray appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Transcript.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Redwing: So I grew up in a pretty intellectual family, but my brother and sister were six and 10 years older than me, and they were always feeding me literature and poetry. Eric: What do you think attracted you to it? When I was about nine-years-old, they gave me a book of poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay.

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JUNE 30, 2022

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. You’ll have a feeding tube. Yep, for geriatrics? You may end up there indefinitely. Samir: Yeah.

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