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GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast

Alex Smith, Eric Widera

A geriatrics and palliative medicine podcast for every health care professional. Two UCSF doctors, Eric Widera and Alex Smith, invite the brightest minds in geriatrics, hospice, and palliative care to talk about the topics that you care most about, ranging from recently published research in the field to controversies that keep us up at night. You"ll laugh, learn, and maybe sing along. CME and MOC credit available (AMA PRA Category 1 credits) at www.geripal.org

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50:34

RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, &...

GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast ·

2025/04/10

Early in my research career, I was fascinated by the (then) frontier area of palliative care in the emergency department. I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? This is not why I went into emergency medicine. I went into emergency medicine to act. I can’t do the primary thing I’ve been trained to do: ABC, ABC, ABCs. Most emergency providers wanted to do the

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51:34

GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundebjerg and Annie...

GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast ·

2025/04/03

Whelp, goodbye folks! Eric and I have been DOGE’d. In a somewhat delayed April Fools, Nancy Lundebjerg and Annie Medina-Walpole have taken over podcast host duties this week. Their purpose is to interview me, Eric, and Ken Covinsky about your final AGS literature review plenary session taking place at the Annual Meeting in Chicago this May (for those attending, our session is the plenary the morning of May 10). We discuss our favorite articles, parody songs, and memories from AGS meetings past,

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47:04

Pragmatic Trial of ACP: Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy,...

GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast ·

2025/03/27

A pragmatic trial evaluates the effectiveness of a treatment or intervention in “real-world” clinical practice. Outcomes are typically assessed from available records. Eligibility in pragmatic trials are often broad, and don’t have the exclusions of efficacy studies, which examine treatment effects under highly controlled conditions in highly select populations. Today we are delighted to welcome Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, and Danny Scerpella, who conducted a pragmatic trial of advance care

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51:26

Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope...

GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast ·

2025/03/20

Eric and Alex have featured discussions about complex bioethical concepts around caring for people at the end of life, including voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED), and multiple episodes about the ethical issues surrounding medical aid in dying (MAID). Recently, discussion has emerged about how these issues intertwine in caring for patients with advancing dementia who have stated that they would not want to continue living in that condition: for those with an advanced directive to stop

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48:50

The Roots of Palliative Care: Michael Kearney, Sue...

GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast ·

2025/03/13

As far as we’ve come in the 50 years since Balfour Mount and Sue Britton opened the first palliative care at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Quebec, have we lost something along the way? In today’s podcast we welcome some of the early pioneers in palliative care to talk about the roots of palliative care. Sue Britton was the first nurse hired on that palliative care unit. Michael Kearney on a transformational meeting in Cicely Saunders’s office, with Balfour Mount at her side and a glass of sherry.

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46:46

PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast ·

2025/03/06

I was very proud to use the word “apotheosis” on today’s podcast. See if you can pick out the moment. I say something like, “Palliative care is, in many ways, the apotheosis of great palliative care.” And I believe that to be true. When you think about the early concepts that shaped the field, you can see how palliative care for persons experiencing homelessness fits like a hand in a glove: total pain envisioned by Cicely Saunders, which even its earliest sketches included social suffering like

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51:26

PC for Patients with Substance Use Disorder: Janet...

GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast ·

2025/02/27

Much like deprescribing, we plan to revisit certain high impact and dynamic topics frequently. Substance use disorder is one of those complex issues in which clinical practice is changing rapidly. You can listen to our prior podcasts on substance use disorder here, here, here, and here. Today we talk with experts Janet Ho, Sach Kale, and Julie Childers about opioid use disorder and serious illness. We address: Why is caring for patients with this overlap so hard? Inspired by Dani Chammas’s

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47:07

Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah...

GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast ·

2025/02/20

Trauma is a universal experience, and our approach as health care providers to trauma should be universal as well. That’s my main take-home point after learning from our three guests today when talking about trauma-informed care, an approach that highlights key principles including safety, trustworthiness, peer support, collaboration, empowerment, and cultural sensitivity. With that said, there is so much more that I learned from our guests for this trauma-informed care podcast. Our guests include

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47:19

Plenary Abstracts at AAHPM/HPNA: Yael Schenker, Na...

GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast ·

2025/02/13

In today’s podcast we were delighted to be joined by the presenters of the top scientific abstracts for the Annual Assembly of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) and the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Nurses Association (HPNA). Eric and I interviewed these presenters at the meeting on Thursday (before the pub crawl, thankfully). On Saturday, they formally presented their abstracts during the plenary session, followed by a wonderful question and answer session with

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47:52

How to Make an Alzheimer's Diagnosis in Primary Care:...

GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast ·

2025/02/06

Things are changing quickly in the Alzheimer’s space. We now have biomarkers that can reasonably approximate the degree of amyloid build-up in the brain with a simple blood test. We have two new FDA-approved medications that reduce that amyloid buildup and modestly slow down the progression of the disease. So, the question becomes, what, if anything, should we do differently in the primary care setting to diagnose the disease? On today’s podcast, we’ve invited Nathaniel Chin back to the GeriPal

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51:14

Telehealth vs In-Person Palliative Care: Guests...

GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast ·

2025/01/30

It is a battle royale on this week’s GeriPal podcast. In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. But watch out! Travel time can leave this champ vulnerable to fatigue and no-shows. In the other corner, we have the young upstart, able to reach patients across vast distances when delivering palliative

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49:49

Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung,...

GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast ·

2025/01/23

It’s another deprescribing super special on today's GeriPal Podcast, where we delve into the latest research on deprescribing medications prescribed to older adults. Today, we explore four fascinating studies highlighting innovative approaches to reducing medication use and improving patient outcomes. In our first segment, we discuss a study led by Constance Fung and her team, which investigated the use of a masked tapering method combined with augmented cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia

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47:27

Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe...

GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast ·

2025/01/16

Many older adults lose decision-making capacity during serious illnesses, and a significant percentage lack family or friends to assist with decisions. These individuals may become “unrepresented,” meaning they lack the capacity to make a specific medical decision, do not have an advance directive for that decision, and do not have a surrogate to help. In today’s podcast, we talk with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, and Yael Zweig, authors of the AGS position statement on making medical treatment

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49:44

Palliative Care for Mental Illness: A Podcast with...

GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast ·

2024/12/19

We’ve talked a lot before about integrating psychiatry into palliative care (see here and here for two examples). Still, we haven’t talked about integrating palliative care into psychiatry or in the care of those with severe mental illness. On this week’s podcast, we talk with two experts about palliative psychiatry. We invited Dani Chammas, a palliative care physician and psychiatrist at UCSF (and a frequent guest to the GeriPal podcast), as well as Brent Kious, a psychiatrist at the Huntsman

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47:52

AI for surrogate decision making?!? Dave Wendler,...

GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast ·

2024/12/12

Surrogate decision making has some issues. Surrogates often either don’t know what patients would want, or think they know but are wrong, or make choices that align with their own preferences rather than the patients. After making decisions, many surrogates experience regret, PTSD, and depressive symptoms. Can we do better? Or, to phrase the question for 2024, “Can AI do better?” Follow that path and you arrive at a potentially terrifying scenario: using AI for surrogate decision making.

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48:34

Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter,...

GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast ·

2024/12/05

We’ve covered stories before. With Liz Salmi, Anne Kelly, and Preeti Malani we talked about stories written up in the academic literature, such as the JAMA Piece of My Mind series. We talked with Thor Ringler, who helped found the My Life My Story Project at the VA and beyond, and Heather Coats about the evidence base for capturing patient stories. Today’s podcast is both similar and different. Similar in that the underlying theme of the power of stories. Different in that these storytelling

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50:24

Coping with Serious Illness: Danielle Chammas and...

GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast ·

2024/11/21

Denial. Substance use. Venting. Positive reframing. Humor. Acceptance. All of these are ways we cope with stressful situations. Some we may consider healthy or unhealthy coping strategies, but are they really that easy to categorize? Isn’t it more important to ask whether a particular coping behavior is adaptive or not for a particular person,in a particular time or situation? We are going to tackle this question and so many more about coping on this week's podcast with Dani Chammas, a recurring

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46:46

Falls and Fractures: A Podcast with Sarah Berry

GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast ·

2024/11/14

Falls are very common among older adults but often go unreported or untreated by healthcare providers. There may be lots of reasons behind this. Patients may feel like falls are just part of normal aging. Providers may feel a sense of nihilism, that there just isn't anything they can do to decrease the risk of falling. On this week's podcast, we try to blow up this nihilism with our guest Sarah Berry. Sarah is a geriatrician at Hebrew SeniorLife in Boston where she does research on falls, fractures,

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47:07

Dialysis vs Conservative Management for Older Adults:...

GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast ·

2024/11/07

We recently published a podcast on palliative care for kidney failure, focusing on conservative kidney management. Today we’re going to focus upstream on the decision to initiate dialysis vs conservative kidney management. As background, we discuss Manju Kurella Tamura’s landmark NEJM paper that found, contrary to expectations, that function declines precipitously for nursing home residents who initiate dialysis. If the purpose of initiating dialysis is improving function - our complex, frail,

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43:56

COVID Updates: A Podcast with Peter Chin-Hong and...

GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast ·

2024/10/31

In March 2020, we launched our first podcast on COVID-19. Over the past four years, we’ve seen many changes—some positive, some negative. While many of us are eager to move past COVID (myself included), it’s clear that COVID is here to stay. This week, we sit down with infectious disease experts Peter Chin-Hong and Lona Mody to discuss living with COVID-19. Our conversation covers: The current state of COVID Evidence for COVID boosters, who should get them, and preferences between Novavax and

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