GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

I’d hazard that maybe half the patients I care for at the intersection of geriatrics and palliative care fall in the gray zone. Alex: And a voice that will be very familiar to our listeners, a dynamic and enthusiastic social worker in palliative care at the San Francisco VA, Anne Kelly. Welcome back, Lynn. Lynn: Thank you.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients. They didn’t come up in geriatrics very much. And we see that too in geriatrics.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Why does CHAP have a national medical director, registered nurse and social worker on staff who all specialize in hospice? These organizations got together to bring national experts together and to say, “Why during this unprecedented time of human longevity have evidence-based geriatric health care models not taken root?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Dani and Kery present three steps for interacting with an angry patient: Look within: What is this anger bringing up in me? Keri: It’s all normal, and it’s all data that can better inform our practice. Dani: Yeah, so the way you presented was triggering to them. How is this anger making me feel, think, and react?

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Alex: And we are delight to welcome Lindsey Yourman, who is a geriatrician, she’s a longtime friend and mentee, and is now a peer and is a key component of the ePrognosis working group and helped originate the ideas that led to ePrognosis and she’s now San Diego County’s Chief Geriatrics Officer. Welcome to GeriPal, Lindsey.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. But one of the things I’m really interested in is people have agency and autonomy, so we can present them with the scenarios of best case, worst case, and they will always choose what’s most important to them.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Alex: Also returning Rebecca Sudore, who is professor of medicine at the UCSF in the division of geriatrics, and is a geriatric and palliative care doctor. Ideally, there’ll be a place in the chart that actually captures the name of that person and their contact information. Welcome back, Rebecca.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Every member of the team, even for me, for whatever reason, that switched me from focusing on trying to be in pulmonary critical care to become actually a geriatrician, choose the geriatric fellowship. I could walk down the hall and get information. They can be a- Diane: Social worker. Malaz: Social worker, anybody.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

One bump is just the classic pitfalls we often talk about in serious illness communication: being very jargony, very information focused, and just providing information. Well, it’s not just being present, though. But from the path from novice to expert, you run across a couple of bumps in the road. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And that kind of prognostic information can be just as valuable, really, to patients and their families planning as time-based information. And I think social workers, advanced practitioners, nurses, really feel comfortable giving functional prognoses more so than time-based prognoses. Those kinds of things. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Well, as a kick off to this year’s first in-person State of the Science plenary, held in conjunction with the closing Saturday session of the AAHPM/HPNA Annual Assembly, 3 randomized clinical trials were presented. And when I presented it to the transplant team, they said, “This is interesting, but we don’t need that.

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

Ann Kelly, who’s been on the podcast many times, social worker on palliative care, she’s always under a minute. Kristine: I like to tease my geriatric friends about age. There’s not that much information on smoking and cognition. AlexSmithMD Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Alex: Is age.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

I’m fully present. So I think about social workers, pastoral care professionals, like spiritual care clinicians. And a moral compass that’s informed by understanding that the world isn’t the way you see it necessarily. I mean, I can recall mentors who just by the look in their eye, their demeanor.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

And then to see her, it sort of set up this sense of there’s an expectation that we have for the future that what we’re doing in the present moment is somehow going to continue and that we’re going to have an opportunity to maybe deepen a relationship, to provide some healing, to learn more about each other, to form bonds.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

Just supporting each other too, because how many people are leaving healthcare, but especially leaving this geriatric medicine post-acute facet because they get frustrated or they get fearful of, of these kind of situations. I, I think people are a lot more open to that idea of somebody who’s not healthcare affiliated being present.

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Home Care Pulse

MAY 16, 2023

So before we became accredited by, with the Joint Commission in their home care program, we were already receiving referrals from local physicians, nurses, social workers, discharge planners, at a number of different healthcare systems in the area. This is such valuable information for our audience. A fascinating discussion.

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

And I think that his research was informed by his clinical practice, his clinical practice was informed by his research. And we were able to work under a waiver of informed consent with making the case that we were promoting, which should be standard of care. And the guy was just so good. He really practiced what he preached.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

It’s also what are the pieces of information we’re bringing to the table when we start providing care for residents? Those are evidence-based or evidence-informed tools that have been in practice. Eric: So Jasmine, we hit on care delivery, we also hit apparently on health information technology. Jasmine: Technology.

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