By Alex Smith @AlexSmithMD and Sarah Stranberg, Speech Pathologist, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Consider the following vignettes, common in…
There are a lot of people with swallowing difficulty who are currently getting thickened liquids. For instance, in one study…
Our hospice and palliative care team decided this weekend to do the “Thickened Liquid Challenge.” This is a simple challenge…
by: Diane Stonecipher, RN As a young nurse, some 30 years ago, I worked in a large academic medical center,…
GeriPal’s very own Alex Smith recently gave an absolutely fabulous “Ted-like” talk in which he made the statement that “prognosis…
What? It’s already 2015. But, I have so many great articles published in 2014 that I need to post about!…
by: Gretchen Schwarze, @GretchenSchwa10 My husband, also a surgeon, was recently discussing donor-nephrectomy with a healthy 65 year-old woman in…
Generally at GeriPal we focus on low tech, high touch interventions. Like talking to people. But this week we had…
Tonight I was having a discussion with some close friends. I’ve got to brag here, I have some very smart, passionate…
Over the past decade, the disciplines of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine have become intellectual cousins. Within Palliative Medicine, the recognition…