How to Recommend to Stop Cancer Screening: An Interview with Nancy Shoenborn
June 17, 2017
What should you say to your older patient when it’s time to stop cancer screening? This week’s GeriPal Podcast features…
GeriPal Podcast: Vanessa Grubbs on Hundreds of Interlaced Fingers
June 9, 2017
Today’s GeriPal Podcast features Vanessa Grubbs, a nephrologist and Associate Professor of Medicine at UCSF. She has blogged before for…
GeriPal PodCast: Sandra Moody on Palliative Care in Kamogawa City, Japan
June 1, 2017
For this week’s GeriPal podcast we talk with Sandra Moody, MD, about her experiences in geriatrics and palliative care in…
What’s wrong with the question, “Does Donald Trump have dementia?”
May 31, 2017
There is a very important question floating around right now: does Donald Trump have dementia? Admit it, Geriatricians. You have…
Rebecca Sudore on Advance Care Planning: The Prepare Trial
May 18, 2017
BREAKING! We are posting this the moment the embargo lifts on Rebecca Sudore’s Prepare trial. As most of you know,…
Churning Patients Through Care Settings at the End Of Life: An Interview with Shi-Yi Wang
May 10, 2017
One-third of the Medicare patients who died in 2011 had 4 or more transitions within last 6 months of life…
Samir Sinha: Redesigning Health Care Systems to Be Elder Friendly
May 2, 2017
On this weeks GeriPal podcast, we interview Dr. Samir K. Sinha, MD on how he has influenced local and national…
Palliative Care in Rural America: An Interview with Michael Fratkin
April 25, 2017
This weeks GeriPal Podcast is an interview with Michael D. Fratkin, a palliative care clinician and founder of ResolutionCare, a…
Using Our Pink Friend (POLST) Appropriately: Please Help!
April 24, 2017
The National POLST Paradigm Task Force (NPPTF) has just released their updated “Appropriate POLST Paradigm Form Use Policy,” which can…
Sean Morrison on the Current State of Palliative Care
April 18, 2017
Today’s GeriPal podcast features Sean Morrison, Geriatrician and Palliative Medicine physician, director of the National Palliative Care Research Center and…