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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

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Today, we talk with Bernie Lo, prominent bioethicist and practicing primary care internist, and Laurie Dornbrand, geriatrician at the IOA On Lok PACE, about the legacy of Nancy Curzan. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Laurie Dornbrand has no relationships to disclose. What words to use?

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

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Summary Transcript Summary We’ve talked about Falls a couple of times on this podcast, most recently with Tom Gill about the STRIDE study and before that with Sarah Szanton about the CAPABLE study. Panelists Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates have no relationships to disclose.

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

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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 ). Karen: Thank you.

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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

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Does it improve outcomes that patients, caregivers, and clinicians care about? How does the geriatric assessment lead to improved completion of advance directives, when the assessment doesn’t address advance care planning/directives at all? How does palliative care fit into all this? Precision medicine? Welcome back, William.

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

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We discussed it with today’s guests Heather Coats, palliative care NP-scientist, and Thor Ringler, poet. About us – Dignity in Care. Research Team – Dignity in Care. 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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Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

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Along the way we address: Is this degree of slowed cognitive decline meaningful to patients or care partners? So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families. What about the burdens, risks, and harms? This is Eric Widera.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

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A JAGS randomized trial demonstrated that a free online tool that assess readiness to stop driving helped older drivers with the difficult decision about driving cessation. We’re going to be talking about driving and older adults, and also in the palliative care population. It’s like breaking bad news in palliative care.