Virtual Resources for Older Adults during the COVID19 Pandemic
September 15, 2020
by: Kahli Zietlow, Serena P Wong, and Mitchell Heflin In a recent telehealth visit, a patient presented alongside her husband,…
Advance Care Planning is Wrong: Podcast with Sean Morrison
August 27, 2020
Advance Care Planning · Ethics · Geriatrics · Health Policy Action Committee (HPAC) · Palliative Care
Sean Morrison dropped a bomb. It’s a perspective I’ve heard before from outside of palliative care, most clearly by bioethicists Angie Fagerlin…
Ageism in the Time of COVID: Podcast with Louise Aronson
July 28, 2020
In this week’s GeriPal podcast we talk with Louise Aronson, author of the Pulitzer prize finalist Elderhood (listen/read our podcast with Louise on her…
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…
Outsized Impact of COVID19 on Minority Communities: Podcast with Monica Peek and Alicia Fernandez
June 4, 2020
This was a remarkable podcast during this moment in which our country is hurting in so many ways. Today’s topic…
Rationing of Scarce COVID-19 Drug Treatments: A Podcast with Drs. DeJong, Chen, and White
June 2, 2020
The question of who should get limited supplies of drugs that treat COVID-19 is not a theoretical question, like what…
Hospital-Based Nurses Help Mitigate COVID-19 in Nursing Homes
May 28, 2020
by: Terry E. Hill, Taejoon Ahn, Rebecca Rozen, Joe Greaves For some of us, the cruelest month was mid-March to…
COVID19 in Prisons: Podcast with Brie Williams, Adnan Khan, & Eric Maserati-E Abercrombie
May 19, 2020
Eight of the 10 largest outbreaks in the US have been in correctional facilities. Physical distancing is impossible in prisons…
Do Sitters Prevent Falls for Hospitalized Patients? A podcast with Adela Greeley and Paul Shekelle
May 15, 2020
One million inpatient falls occur annually in U.S. acute care hospitals. Sitters, also referred to as Continuous Patient Aids (CPA’s)…
Should Age be Used To Ration Scarce Resources? Podcast with Tim Farrell and Doug White
May 12, 2020
We are rationing in the US. We may not be explicitly rationing, as we’re going to discuss on this podcast,…