Ambivalence is a tough concept when it comes to decision-making. On the one hand, when people have ambivalence but haven’t…
In 1983, a 25 year old Nancy Cruzan was thrown from her car while driving home in Missouri, landing in…
What is frailty? Kate Callahan relates a clear metaphor on today’s podcast. A frail person is like an origami boat:…
Almost a decade ago, our hospice and palliative care team decided to do a “Thickened Liquid Challenge.” This simple challenge…
Please join Eric and Alex in person for the GeriPal pub crawl at the AAHPM/HPNA annual assembly in Phoenix, Thursday…
In our podcast with palliative care pioneer Susan Block, she identified the psychological/psychiatric aspects of palliative care as the biggest…
We’ve talked about Falls a couple of times on this podcast, most recently with Tom Gill about the STRIDE study…
In 1982 Eric Cassell published his landmark essay: On the Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine. Though his…
Last week we talked about a trial of a nurse and social worker outpatient palliative care intervention published in JAMA. …
In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we…