Most health care providers understand the importance of goals-of-care conversations in aligning treatment plans with patients’ goals, especially for those…
What is death anxiety? We spend the first 15 minutes of the podcast addressing this question. And maybe this was…
What’s the ideal blood pressure target for older adults with hypertension? Should we aim for a systolic BP of 120…
June Lunney famously characterized the end of life functional course of people with dementia as a slow dwindle over time…
Happy Pride Month GeriPal listeners! Transgender issues are in the news. Just today (June 17th) as we record this podcast:…
If you’re anything like me, you might find the process of what happens to patients when they visit a radiation…
Have any of you watched the movie “The Notebook”? At the end, one of the characters, who has dementia, experiences…
As you know, dear listeners, I love music. We start each podcast with a song in part to shift the…
More and more people are, “doing their own research.” Self-identified experts and influencers on podcasts (podcasts!) and social media endorse…
Early in my research career, I was fascinated by the (then) frontier area of palliative care in the emergency department. …