Latest Palliativecare Podcast Episodes
Black/African American Caregivers of Older Adults Living with Dementia: Podcast with Fayron Epps and Karen Moss
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast - September 21, 2023 06:45 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsThe proportion of people living with dementia who identify as Black/African Americans is on the rise, and so too are the proportion of caregivers who identify as Black/African American. As our guests talk about today, caregiving for people living with dementia takes a tremendous toll, and when ...
Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast - September 14, 2023 06:45 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsHospitals are hazardous places for older adults. These hazards include delirium, malnutrition, falls, infections, and hospital associated disability (which about ⅓ of older adults get during a hospital stay). What if, for at least some older adults who need acute-level care, instead of treating...
Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast - September 07, 2023 06:45 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsThe comprehensive geriatric assessment is one of the cornerstones of geriatrics. But does the geriatric assessment do anything? Does it improve outcomes that patients, caregivers, and clinicians care about? Evidence has been mounting about the importance of the geriatric assessment for older...
Normalcy, introspection, & the experience of serious illness: Bill Gardner, Juliet Jacobsen, and Brad Stuart
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast - August 31, 2023 06:45 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsHow 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? Many people strive, struggle, crawl even back toward a “normal” life. And some people, in addition or instead, engage in deep int...
Dignity at the End of Life: A Podcast with Harvey Chochinov
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast - August 24, 2023 06:45 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsI hear the word dignity used a lot in the medical setting, but I’m never sure what people mean when they use it. You’d imagine that as a seasoned palliative care doc, I’d have a pretty good definition by now of what “maintaining dignity” or “loss of dignity” means, but you’d be sadly wrong. W...
Amyloid Antibodies and the Role of the Geriatrician: Nate Chin, Sharon Brangman, and Jason Karlawish
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast - August 17, 2023 06:45 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsIt's been over two years since one of the worst product launches of all time - Aduhelm (aducanumab). Praised by the FDA, Alzheimer’s Association (AA), and Pharma as a “game changer”, but derided by others for the drug’s lack of clinical efficacy, risk of severe adverse effects, absence of diver...
Sleep problems and Insomnia in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Cathy Alessi and Brienne Miner
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast - July 27, 2023 06:45 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsInsomnia. We’ve all had it. Lying in bed at 2 am staring at the ceiling, getting anxious every hour that you’re not falling asleep as you have a busy day coming up. Insomnia sucks. Chronic insomnia sucks even more. For those with serious illness, sleep problems and insomnia are all too common...
Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brook Calton, Carly Zapata
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast - July 20, 2023 06:45 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsThere’s a saying, “never let a crisis go to waste.” The pandemic was horrific in many ways. One positive change that came about was the lifting of restrictions around the use of telemedicine. Clinicians could care for patients across state lines, could prescribe opioids without in person visi...
Jumpstarting Goals of Care Convos: Erin Kross, Bob Lee, and Ruth Engelberg
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast - July 13, 2023 06:45 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsToday’s podcast is a follow up to our 2018 podcast with Randy Curtis about the Jumpstart intervention. On that podcast he and collaborators tested a combined patient and clinician facing communication priming intervention to promote goals of care conversations. Today we discuss a new paper in ...
040 - ACHPN Prep Part 5 Intervention and Management Part 2
HPM TALK - July 07, 2023 11:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings040 - ACHPN Prep Part 5 Intervention and Management Part 2 Amanda, Carissa and Steve discuss more pitfalls and pearls to help pass the ACHPN exam. Plus letters from listeners!
How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: A Podcast with Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast - July 06, 2023 06:45 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsYou may have heard of Area Agencies on Aging, but do you really know what they do or how they do it? What about State Departments of Aging or state master plans for aging? Do you know how these agencies fit in with programs like Meals-on-Wheels or other nutritional support programs? Is your br...
Hospice in Prison Part 2: An interview with the Pastoral Care Workers
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast - June 29, 2023 06:45 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsI don't know 'bout religion I only know what I see And in the end when I hold their hand It's both of us set free These are the ending lyrics to Bonnie Raitt’s song “Down the Hall”, an ode to the Pastoral Care Workers who care for their fellow inmates in the hospice unit at the California M...
Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast - June 22, 2023 06:45 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsIn the early 1990’s, California Medical Facility (CMF) created one of the nation’s first licensed hospice units inside a prison. This 17-bed unit serves inmates from all over the state who are approaching the end of their lives. A few are let out early on compassionate release. Many are...
Artificial Intelligence: Charlotta Lindvall, Matt DeCamp, Sei Lee
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast - June 15, 2023 06:45 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsArtificial Intelligence, or AI, has tremendous potential. We talk on this podcast about potential uses of AI in geriatrics and palliative care with natural language processing guru Charlotta Lindvall from DFCI, bioethicists and internist Matt DeCamp from University of Colorado, and prognosis wi...
039 - ACHPN Prep PART 4 - Intervention and Management Part 1
HPM TALK - June 09, 2023 11:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings039 - ACHPN Prep PART 4 - Intervention and Management Part 1 - Join Dr. Steven Baumrucker, Medical Director of Ballad Health Palliative Medicine Associates and Associate Editor in Chief of the American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, as he speaks with Amanda Stevens, Nurse Practitio...
Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast - June 08, 2023 06:45 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsDiabetes is common. When I’m on nursing home call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar value. When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. Given how frequent m...
038 - ACHPN PREP - PART 3 - Assessment and Data Collection-Part 2
HPM TALK - May 30, 2023 11:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings038 - ACHPN PREP - PART 3: Assessment and Data Collection-Part 2 - Join Dr. Steven Baumrucker, Medical Director of Ballad Health Palliative Medicine Associates and Associate Editor in Chief of the American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, as he speaks with Amanda Stevens, Nurse Pract...
Group ACP and Equity: Sarah Nouri, Hillary Lum, LJ Van Scoy
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast - May 25, 2023 06:45 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsOur guests today present an important rejoinder to the argument that we should refocus away from advance care planning (ACP). Sarah Nouri, Hillary Lum, and LJ Van Scoy argue that diverse communities are asking for ACP. Sarah Nouri gives an example from her work in the LGBTQ+ community of a tra...
AGS Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use: A Podcast with Todd Semla and Mike Steinman
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast - May 18, 2023 06:45 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsHot off the press is a brand spanking new updated 2023 AGS Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults. The Beers Criteria is one of the most frequently cited reference tools in geriatrics, detailing potentially inappropriate medications to prescribe to older pe...
037 - ACHPN Prep PART 2 - Assessment and Data Collection-Part 1
HPM TALK - May 12, 2023 11:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings037 - ACHPN Prep PART 2 - Assessment and Data Collection - Part 1- Join Dr. Steven Baumrucker, Medical Director of Ballad Health Palliative Medicine Associates and Associate Editor in Chief of the American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, as he speaks with Amanda Stevens, Nurse Pract...
Prevention of Dementia: Kristine Yaffe
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast - May 11, 2023 06:45 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsWe’ve had multiple GeriPal episodes about treatments for dementia, including aducanumab (here, here, and here) and lecanemab (here). As today’s guest, Kristine Yaffe notes, part of the reason for that emphasis is that in the US we prioritize treatment, whereas other countries are ahead of us ...
Why is working with adolescents and young adults so hard? Abby Rosenberg, Nick Purol, Daniel Eison, & Andrea Thach
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast - May 04, 2023 06:45 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsI haven’t worked with many adolescents and young adults (AYA, roughly teens to twenties). But when I have, I find that they’re often some of the hardest patients to care for. Why? We talk about why it’s so hard with Abby Rosenberg (chief of PC at DFCI and Boston Childrens), Nick Purol (clinic...
GeriPal Special: Hopes and Worries for Hospice and Palliative Care
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast - April 27, 2023 06:45 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsWe have a special extra podcast this week. During the last AAHPM - HPNA meeting in Montréal, we went around asking attendees what one thing that they are most worried about and one thing they are most hopeful for when thinking about the future of our field. We couldn’t fit everyone’s respons...
036 - ACHPN PREP - PART 1
HPM TALK - April 21, 2023 11:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings036 - ACHPN PREP - PART 1 Part one of our new ongoing series designed to help APRNs pass the ACHPN exam,
Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast - April 20, 2023 06:45 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsIn 1990 11% of homeless persons were older than 50. Today half are over age 50. Today we talk with Margot Kushel about how we got here, including: That sense of powerlessness as a clinician when you “fix up” a patient in the hospital, only to discharge them to the street knowing things will f...
The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast - April 13, 2023 06:45 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsSocial connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. Experiencing social isolation, the objective lack of contact with friends, f...
RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast - April 06, 2023 06:45 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsDo we need an RCT to establish the worth of chaplaincy? Einstein once said, “Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.” A friend of GeriPal, and prior guest, Guy Micco commented today that we need an RCT for chaplaincy is...
Storytelling in Medicine: A Podcast with Liz Salmi, Anne Kelly, and Preeti Malani
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast - March 30, 2023 06:45 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsTwo weeks ago on the GeriPal podcast we talked about why and how to write for the general public. This week we’ve invited three guests to share their stories about storytelling that’s written for healthcare providers. The first guest is Liz Salmi. Liz wrote a fabulous perspectives piece in ...
Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast - March 24, 2023 18:43 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsIn November of 2022, Ava Kofman published a piece in the New Yorker titled “How Hospice Became a For-Profit Hustle.” Some viewed this piece as an affront to the amazing work hospice does for those approaching the end of their lives by cherry picking stories of a few bad actors to paint hospice...
Writing for the Lay Public: Rosanne Leipzig and Louise Aronson
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast - March 16, 2023 06:45 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 256 ratingsSo you want to write a book. So you want to write a book! So…you want to write a book?!? Today we talk with two geriatricians: Rosanne Leipzig, author of Honest Aging: An Insider's Guide to the Second Half of Life; and Louise Aronson, author of Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Me...
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