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. When should people get palliative care?

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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

MARCH 28, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary One marker of the distance we’ve traveled in palliative care is the blossoming evidence base for the field. They study palliative care. She’s pulmonary critical care and palliative medicine trained. These are big trials in palliative care. Kate: 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. I’m going to turn to you Lauren. Don’t ask anybody.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

ICU care was pretty rudimentary. And now ICU care has flourished, and we can keep people alive in the sense that their heart is beating and we can sustain their ventilation and circulation. Almost all deaths in the ICU now are due to withdrawal of care or withholding of care. And we see that too in geriatrics.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

A health services researcher and palliative care physician, Amber lauds the ability of simulation studies to isolate one variable in a study. Being a palliative care physician, the one that came immediately to mind was Knocking on Heaven’s Door. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith. Amber: I do.

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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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