Electronic Frailty Indexes: Kate Callahan, Ariela Orkaby, & Dae Kim
March 21, 2024
What is frailty? Kate Callahan relates a clear metaphor on today’s podcast. A frail person is like an origami boat:…
Dysphagia Revisited: A Podcast with Raele Donetha Robison and Nicole Rogus-Pulia
March 14, 2024
Almost a decade ago, our hospice and palliative care team decided to do a “Thickened Liquid Challenge.” This simple challenge…
GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style
February 29, 2024
Please join Eric and Alex in person for the GeriPal pub crawl at the AAHPM/HPNA annual assembly in Phoenix, Thursday…
Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin
February 22, 2024
In our podcast with palliative care pioneer Susan Block, she identified the psychological/psychiatric aspects of palliative care as the biggest…
EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates
February 15, 2024
We’ve talked about Falls a couple of times on this podcast, most recently with Tom Gill about the STRIDE study…
The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks
February 8, 2024
In 1982 Eric Cassell published his landmark essay: On the Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine. Though his…
RCT of Default Inpatient PC Consults: Kate Courtright & Scott Halpern
February 2, 2024
Last week we talked about a trial of a nurse and social worker outpatient palliative care intervention published in JAMA. …
RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot
January 25, 2024
In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we…
Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check
January 18, 2024
The CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain excludes those undergoing cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. In…
What is going on with MAID in Canada? Bill Gardner, Leonie Herx, & Sonu Gaind
January 11, 2024
Four percent of deaths in Canada are due to Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID). Four percent. The number of people…