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. That was from our what?

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary Almost a decade ago, our hospice and palliative care team decided to do a “Thickened Liquid Challenge.” We also talk about the importance of a proactive approach to involving speech-language pathologists in the care of individuals early on with neurodegenerative diseases like dementia and ALS.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

Rajagopal (goes by “Raj”), one of the pioneers of palliative care in India. Raj is an anesthesiologist turned palliative care doctor. He is also author of the book, “ Walk with the Weary: Lessons in Humanity in Health Care ,” and was featured in this Atlantic article. Community-based palliative care networks .

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

To provide context, we are joined by Karen Steinhauser, a social scientist at Duke who has been studying spirituality for years (and published one of the most cited papers in palliative care on factors considered important at the end of life , as well as one of my favorite qualitative papers to give to research trainees ).

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

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. . Summary Transcript Summary.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Janet is the author of the 4th edition of the book Comprehensive Guide to Supportive and Palliative Care for Patients with Cancer, along with co-authors Molly Collins and BR Daubman. This book is terrific, truly comprehensive, and is a go to resource for when I’m “stuck” taking care of patients with cancer. .

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. 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.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Alex: We are delighted to welcome Jacky Kruser, who’s a pulmonary critical care doctor and health services researcher at the University of Wisconsin. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Bob Arnold, who is a palliative care doctor, VitalTalk co-founder. Alex: A feeding tube. Jacky: Thank you.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

Nathan is a Palliative Care doctor and an assistant professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. He uses comics and other artwork to share his experiences in palliative care and educate others about topics like empathy and communication skills. We’ve had two podcast already on poems in both aging and in palliative care.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary On today’s podcast, we’ve invited four hospice and palliative care social media influencers (yes, that’s a thing!), We have Hsien Seow, who is the Canadian Research Chair in Palliative Care and Health Systems Innovation and Professor in the Department of Oncology at McMaster University in Canada.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Don: Thanks for having me, Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Abby Rosenberg, who’s Chief of Pediatric Palliative Care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Director of Palliative Care at Boston Children’s Hospital and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

In this second part in our series, we welcome Mike Rabow and Redwing Keyssar to talk about palliative care and poetry. . As with aging, poetry operates on multiple levels within the palliative care space. . Mike Rabow’s Comprehensive Care Team randomized trial of outpatient palliative care.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

There is a lively debate going on in academic circles about the value of Advance Care Planning (ACP). It’s not a new debate but has gathered steam at least in palliative care circles since Sean Morrisons published a JPM article titled “ Advance Directives/Care Planning: Clear, Simple, and Wrong.” Juliet: Thank you.

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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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Alex 00:15 We are delighted to welcome Jane deLima Thomas, who was a co-fellow with me back in the day in palliative care. You know, us in palliative care, we’re fueled by death anxiety, by a lot of loss. I was a director of our palliative care team. Jane, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

Ought we, in bioethics, create ethical rules for providing care that is illegal? Would such ethical guidelines foster or feed suspicion of the motivations of bioethics? . This episode of the GeriPal Podcast is sponsored by UCSF’s Division of Palliative Medicine , an amazing group doing world class palliative care.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Karl Steinberg, he’s a palliative care doc and a geriatrician. He’s President of National POLST and recent past president of AMDA, the Long-Term Care Association. And whether tube feeding should be on there, that’s never an emergency decision.

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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

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. And you two guys are both palliative care docs, right? Joel: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

But as you know, I’m a palliative care researcher and supportive care researcher, so never in a million years when I started sort of working in the clinic thought, would I ever be doing sexual health work. And here I am considering myself all palliative care or supportive care.

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