GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary As Betty Ferrell says on our podcast today, nurses play an essential role in care of people with serious illness. ELNEC (End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium) celebrates it’s 25th anniversary in 2025. Who spends the most time with the patient in the infusion center? Doing home care? Hospice visits?

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

I’m unsure what they do, how often they’re used, and who pays for their work. So, on today’s podcast, we try to get to the bottom of what exactly is an end-of-life doula. Despite this, in my 20-year career as a palliative care physician, I have yet to see a death doula in the wild. Why Beth? This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

“Imagine that you are the medical director of a large (>150 bed) nursing home. The other physicians who previously saw patients in the nursing home are no longer coming to your facility because you have COVID positive patients. You’re short on nurses and nurse aids so now you have to help deliver meals.”. Transcript.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. 2023.11.004.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

We’ve invited: Julie McFadden (aka Hospice Nurse Julie ): Julie is a social media superstar, with 1.5 She covers topics on death, dying, and hospice from a hospice nurse perspective, and she also has a book coming out called “ Nothing to Fear: Demystifying Death to Live More Fully ,” which is now available for pre-order.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary Four percent of deaths in Canada are due to Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID). Four percent. The number of people who have used MAID in Canada since it was legalized in 2016 has increased year on year from about 1,000 people in the first year to over 13,000 people in 2022. It is the slippery slope made real.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 24, 2023

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. What drew you to the hospice field? My grandfather died from lung cancer as a result of what’s called black lung disease.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

More recently Sharon Kaufman ‘s book And a Time to Die described the ways in which physicians, nurses, hospital systems, and payment mechanisms influenced the hour and manner of patient’s deaths. Eric: What’s going on in your background? Anne, welcome back. Anne: Nice to be back. This field is not new.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

Many people strive, struggle, crawl even back toward a “ normal ” life. Summary Transcript Summary How do people react when they hear they have a serious illness? Shock, “like a car is rushing straight at me” (says Bill Gardner on our podcast). After the shock? We could have talked for hours! This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

What if, for at least some older adults who need acute-level care, instead of treating them in the hospital, we treat them at home? what happens at home, do you need a caregiver, what happens if they need something like imaging? , what happens at home, do you need a caregiver, what happens if they need something like imaging?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

David Bekelman conducted a RCT of a nurse and social worker telephone intervention (ADAPT intervention) for people with heart failure and lung disease (COPD or ILD). He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life.

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GeriPal

APRIL 11, 2024

What should we be more worried about in decision-making, ambivalence or the lack thereof? What should we be more worried about in decision-making, ambivalence or the lack thereof? What about ambivalence on the part of the provider? Summary Transcript Summary Ambivalence is a tough concept when it comes to decision-making.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

Alex: Revisit thickened liquid challenge is back, baby. Alex: It’s back. It’s back. Summary Transcript Summary Almost a decade ago, our hospice and palliative care team decided to do a “Thickened Liquid Challenge.” All of us failed the challenge. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith. Eric: Oh boy.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

We also talk about the eligibility for the unit, what makes it run including the interdisciplinary team and the inmate peer workers, and the topic of compassionate release. Alex: What this is, where are we? Alex: What this is, where are we? A few are let out early on compassionate release. Many are there until they die.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

First, a clinician’s thoughts must be encoded into words, then transmitted often via sounds, and finally decoded back to thoughts by a patient or family member. This podcast was inspired by Abby and Don’s recent JAMA Oncology paper titled Miscommunication in Cancer Care—Do You Hear What I Hear? What else? Welcome back, Abby.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary What level of evidence do we need for POLST to use it ourselves, to advocate for wider usage, and for establishing POLST completion as a quality metric? It’s not zero, as many of us have had cases in which we said, “Thank god we completed that POLST, it clearly stopped X from happening.” Absolutely not.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

What would it take to transform dementia care? Summary Transcript Summary. In order to truly transform dementia care we need to think much broader than the amyloid hypothesis. Her most recent book is Dementia Friendly Communities: why we need them and how we can create them . She created TimeSlips which we talk about in our podcast.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

So, I’m appreciative of being able to come back and spend some time with you. Raj: It’s a theme song, which we believe would be appropriate for palliative care, reminding us of what is important. Raj is the founder of Pallium , an organization dedicated to improving palliative care throughout India. slowed down version.

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GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

We discuss with them why they decided to volunteer for the hospice unit, what a day in the life of a Pastoral Care Worker looks like, and among other things their thoughts on forgiveness, redemption, rehabilitation, and compassionate release. What’s coming up in episode two? This week we turn our attention to the inmates.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 22, 2024

In this interview, Palliative Care News sits down with Bruera to discuss the landscape of palliative care and what he sees for the future of the field. What drew you to the palliative care field? When you look at today’s palliative care landscape, what needs to change? I am trained as a medical oncologist.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

What struck me most was not that palliative care was a question, nor that it made it seem that palliative care isn’t provided alongside care directed at curing, nor was it that hospice was the first buzzed in response, but it was that palliative care was the $2000 question in the Double Jeopardy round! So what do we do about it?

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Alex: What time did you get home, young man? Summary Transcript Summary One marker of the distance we’ve traveled in palliative care is the blossoming evidence base for the field. We’ve come so far as a field. I believe these issues were more than made up for by our guests’ forced accompaniment to the song “Feel Like Making Science.”

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In particular, we’re looking at how we engage our staff to create a better patient experience, and for us being in a suburban and more rural area, we are doing a lot of things to make sure that our retention is where it needs to be. What they care about is professional development. This article is sponsored by Axxess.

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Hospice News

MARCH 13, 2023

While working in family medicine, hospitals and nursing homes, he started “moonlighting” in hospice, which ultimately took his career in a new direction. When I saw what hospice does in that team approach to care, I really drew that correlation between what my ancestors had done in starting the Mayo Clinic,” Mayo told Hospice News.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Eric and I weren’t sure what to call this podcast – storytelling and medicine? Because that really is what this is about. What’s in a story? They’re people, and what makes us people if not our life’s stories? Wonderful work. What Mattered Then, Now, and Always: Illness Narratives From Persons of Color.

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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. See also our accompanying editorial , first author Ashwin Kotwal who joins today as a co-host, and a podcast I recorded with JAMA editor Preeti Malani). Much more to come. I saw them only twice.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

I’m not sure what to title this podcast but I’ve been looking forward to it for some time. Eric: Alex, I forget what happens next. Eric: I’m looking forward to talking about art and humor in palliative care and we’re caring for seriously ill patients. What should I call this? Graphic Novels.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In an article in the NEJM (a published article this time, wonder of wonders!) Wait, what ? . What about the burdens, risks, and harms? What does this study say about the amyloid hypothesis? Should the FDA approve, and under what conditions? But wait, there’s a shiny new anti-amyloid drug, lecanemab! (No

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Let’s just dig into what the problem is with that renewed focus on quality in hospice. I think there’s easy solutions to this, which CMS has started to look into. This article is sponsored by nVoq. This article is based on a Hospice News discussion with Jason Banks, vice president of post-acute business development at nVoq.

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Hospice News

MAY 2, 2022

As a leader at UnityPoint, what are your priorities for 2022? They were able to make sure that my family understood what hospice is and what was going to happen. They were able to make sure that my family understood what hospice is and what was going to happen. We were able to bring her home.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Starting bar TBD, look for the GeriPal post, and follow #HPMParty on Twitter to keep us as we crawl! ** Today we celebrate eight years, around 2 million listens, and 300 podcasts! Summary Transcript Summary Please join Eric and Alex in person for the GeriPal pub crawl at the AAHPM/HPNA annual assembly in Phoenix, Thursday night 3/21 8PM.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Alex: Oh, I’m so happy to welcome to our podcast Janet Abrahm, who is a dear friend, teacher of mine from back in the days of residency and fellowship. Summary Transcript Summary. Have you had difficulty managing a particular type of cancer pain? For me it’s radiation induced mucositis/esophagitis. Lidocaine: worth the hype? Transcript.

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

valproic acid and gabapentin), in nursing homes, particularly patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. JAMA Surgery 2018 Gabapentin and mood stabilizers in the Nursing Home Setting: Antiepileptic prescribing to persons living with dementia residing in nursing homes: A tale of two indications.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

Alex: We have some wonderful guests. She’s a hospice and palliative care nurse practitioner and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at UCSF. Welcome back to GeriPal, Lauren. If you are interested in signing the position statement “Core Roles and Responsibilities of Physicians in Hospice Care”, click here.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

We address: What is coaching? How does it differ from mentoring What is typically covered in coaching sessions? What is the evidence (see many links below, sent by Beth) What are the standards for becoming a coach? When I was a junior faculty, coaching wasn’t a thing. How does it differ from therapy? Who is coaching for?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Welcome back, Anne. Summary Transcript Summary. In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team social worker. But are we really taking full advantage of ALL social workers have to offer our field? by: Anne Kelly, LCSW, APHSW-C. Transcript. Barbara: Yay.

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