Alex Smith, Author at A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional

Time Limited Trials in the ICU: A Podcast with Dong Chang and Richard Leiter

October 7, 2021

Time-limited trials. We’ve all probably used them before. We meet with patients and families. We agree to either start or…

September 30, 2021

I’m going to start this introduction the way Eric ended our podcast. You are a GeriPal listener. Like us, you…

September 16, 2021

Randy Curtis, a paragon of palliative care research, was diagnosed with ALS in March. Randy is in a unique position…

September 9, 2021

Palliative care has a diversity problem. The workforce of palliative care looks nothing like the patient population that we care…

September 2, 2021

Much has been written in geriatrics and palliative care about anticipatory grief, about the grief of caregivers, and even the…

August 26, 2021

Today’s podcast is on academic life hacks, those tips and tricks we have seen and developed over the years to…

August 19, 2021

Loneliness is different than isolation and solitude. Loneliness is a subjective feeling where the connections we need are greater than…

July 29, 2021

On June 7th, 2021 FDA approved the amyloid beta-directed antibody aducanumab (Aduhelm) for the Treatment of Alzheimers. This approval of…

July 22, 2021

Cannabis use by older adults has increased substantially over the last decade, a trend that has paralleled the legalization of…

July 15, 2021

In a new study in JAGS, Matthew Growdon found that the average number of medications people with dementia took in…