Rethinking Slow Codes: Gina Piscitello, Parker Crutchfield, Jason Wasserman
I’m going to begin with a wonderful quote from a recent editorial in Bioethics by our guests Parker Crutchfield &…
I’m going to begin with a wonderful quote from a recent editorial in Bioethics by our guests Parker Crutchfield &…
What is a “good death”? How should we define it, and who gets to decide? Is the concept of a…
On today’s podcast, we talk about an innovative specialized primary care model for older veterans called the Geriatric Patient Aligned…
In today’s podcast we talk with Eric Wong, geriatrician-researcher from Toronto, and Thiago Silva, geriatrician-researcher from Brazil, about the comprehensive…
In his book, “Why We Revolt,” Victor Montori decries the industrialization of healthcare. We’ve become a healthcare factory, beholden to…
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:…