The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks
February 8, 2024
In 1982 Eric Cassell published his landmark essay: On the Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine. Though his…
RCT of Default Inpatient PC Consults: Kate Courtright & Scott Halpern
February 2, 2024
Last week we talked about a trial of a nurse and social worker outpatient palliative care intervention published in JAMA. …
RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot
January 25, 2024
In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we…
Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check
January 18, 2024
The CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain excludes those undergoing cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. In…
What is going on with MAID in Canada? Bill Gardner, Leonie Herx, & Sonu Gaind
January 11, 2024
Four percent of deaths in Canada are due to Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID). Four percent. The number of people…
GeriPal Podcast Year in Review and Exciting News for 2024 (CME!)
December 28, 2023
It’s been a big year for the GeriPal podcast. We’ve published 45 podcasts in 2023 and have had a total…
Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty
December 21, 2023
We’ve talked a lot about comprehensive dementia care on the GeriPal podcast but while the evidence is clear that these…
Influence of Hospital Culture on Intensity of Care: Liz Dzeng
December 14, 2023
One of the things I love about Liz Dzeng’s work is the way in which it draws upon, echoes, and…
Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy
December 7, 2023
To my teenagers, climate change is an existential crisis. It’s the end of the world as we know it. They…
Redefining Alzheimer’s Disease: A Podcast with Heather Whitson, Jason Karlawish, Lon Schneider
December 1, 2023
There is a growing push to change how we define Alzheimer’s disease from what was historically a clinically defined syndrome…