GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Eric and I are joined today on this podcast by Anne Kelly palliative care social worker to discuss these issues with Liz. Alex: And joining us as she has many times, Anne Kelly is a social worker at the San Francisco VA. At the end we also pay tribute to Randy Curtis, senior author on this paper and mentor to Liz.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

So take a listen and if you are interested in learning more, check out these wonderful links: Harvey’s latest book is called, Dignity in Care: The Human Side of Medicine Intensive Caring: Reminding Patients They Matter Michael J. I mean, we all give lip services saying, “Person-centered care is important.”

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

We also have Joe Shega, who is a hospice physician, and he is a Chief Medical Officer and Vice President at VITAS Healthcare. This was an investigative report about fraud and healthcare, pure fraud, pure victimization of vulnerable people. If you do good quality patient care, I believe the other naturally follows.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary Last week we talked about a trial of a nurse and social worker outpatient palliative care intervention published in JAMA. He’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc/researcher in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Good to see you. Ashwin, welcome back.

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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. You work with who’s there and they, they deliver care.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And I’m worried about all of us as healthcare workers, but particularly… And when I say particularly those in the hospital, because they are just tired. If they had a healthcare agent, then this would be better, right? The post Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

You know, the, for most medical professionals dying, the death of a patient is a sense of failure. And so all of us in the healthcare profession, in in the he caring profession, I like, that’s my new thing, health, right? And so we need to teach the way to take care of people at end of life.

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Home Care Pulse

MAY 16, 2023

Linda Leekley ( 01:11 ): And Gary, as mentioned, is the Joint Commission, the nation’s oldest and largest accrediting body and healthcare in a career spanning more than 30 years. That’s what every successful healthcare organization should strive to achieve. Brett Ringold ( 04:39 ): Yeah, absolutely.

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