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,…
What is Emotional PPE? Podcast with Dani Chammas
May 6, 2020
We are delighted to have Dani Chammas, psychiatrist and palliative care physician, back on the GeriPal podcast to talk about…
Proactive Integration of Geriatrics and Palliative Care Principles Into COPD: Podcast with Anand Iyer
April 30, 2020
What’s the role of geriatrics and palliative care in the care of individuals with COPD? We talk this week with…
The Outsized Impact of COVID in Nursing Homes & in Dementia: Guests Kathleen Unroe & Ellen Kaehr
April 28, 2020
Many of you listened to our prior podcast with Jim Wright and David Grabowski about COVID in long term and…
Love letter to Mt. Sinai
April 25, 2020
We were asked by Sean Morrison, Chair of the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Icahn School…
Catastrophic Thinking and COVID19
April 8, 2020
by: Sarah Stroe I’m going to cut right to the chase- I am not doing well with the pandemic we…
COVID in Long Term Care: Podcast with Jim Wright and David Grabowski
April 6, 2020
Imagine that you are the medical director of a large (>150 bed) nursing home. Two-thirds of the patients in the…
What is the prognosis of COVID-19?
April 6, 2020
by: Eric Widera (@ewidera) —— Note: for the most up-to-date information on prognosis in COVID, please go to the GeriPal…