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

Elder Mistreatment: Podcast with Laura Mosqueda

June 12, 2020

If you looked at the academic literature, you would think that elder abuse and neglect, collectively called elder mistreatment, did…

June 4, 2020

This was a remarkable podcast during this moment in which our country is hurting in so many ways. Today’s topic…

May 26, 2020

As Ashwin Kotwal and Lynn Flint note in the introduction to their Annals of Internal Medicine essay, one year ago…

May 22, 2020

Parkinson disease affects 1% to 2% of people older than 65 years. Most known for its distinctive motor symptoms, other…

May 19, 2020

Eight of the 10 largest outbreaks in the US have been in correctional facilities. Physical distancing is impossible in prisons…

May 12, 2020

We are rationing in the US. We may not be explicitly rationing, as we’re going to discuss on this podcast,…

May 8, 2020

The Surgical Palliative Care Podcast is hosted by Dr. Melissa “Red” Hoffman. Red is both an acute care surgeon and…

May 6, 2020

We are delighted to have Dani Chammas, psychiatrist and palliative care physician, back on the GeriPal podcast to talk about…

April 28, 2020

Many of you listened to our prior podcast with Jim Wright and David Grabowski about COVID in long term and…

April 25, 2020

We were asked by Sean Morrison, Chair of the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Icahn School…