Should Palliative Care be in the Survivorship Business? A Podcast with Laura Petrillo, Laura Shoemaker
July 3, 2025
In this week’s episode, we dig into two deceptively simple questions: When does someone become a cancer survivor, and should…
Health and Wealth Shocks: Lauren Hunt, Rebecca Rodin, Tsai-Chin Cho
June 26, 2025
June Lunney famously characterized the end of life functional course of people with dementia as a slow dwindle over time…
Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt
June 19, 2025
Happy Pride Month GeriPal listeners! Transgender issues are in the news. Just today (June 17th) as we record this podcast:…
What You Should Know About Radiation Oncology: Anish Butala, Emily Martin and Evie Kalmar
June 12, 2025
If you’re anything like me, you might find the process of what happens to patients when they visit a radiation…
Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy
June 5, 2025
The need for better palliative care in nursing homes is significant. Consider this: the majority of the 1.4 million adults…
Lucid Episodes: Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi & Andrew Peterson
May 29, 2025
Have any of you watched the movie “The Notebook”? At the end, one of the characters, who has dementia, experiences…
Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison
May 22, 2025
As you know, dear listeners, I love music. We start each podcast with a song in part to shift the…
Nudges for Prognosis and Comfort Care in the ICU: Kate Courtright, Scott Halpern, & Jaspal Singh
May 15, 2025
Our main focus today was on nudging critical care clinicians to consider a more palliative approach to care. Our guests…
Psilocybin in Serious Illness: James Downar, Ali John Zarrabi and Margaret Ross
May 8, 2025
We’ve covered psychedelics on the podcast before—first in 2019 with Ira Byock, where we explored their potential role in medicine,…
HIV, Aging, and Palliative Care: Peter Selwyn and Meredith Greene
May 1, 2025
Peter Selwyn, one of today’s guests, has been caring for people living with HIV for over 40 years. In that…