Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig
January 16, 2025
Many older adults lose decision-making capacity during serious illnesses, and a significant percentage lack family or friends to assist with…
Palliative Care for Mental Illness: A Podcast with Dani Chammas and Brent Kious
December 19, 2024
We’ve talked a lot before about integrating psychiatry into palliative care (see here and here for two examples). Still, we…
AI for Surrogate Decision Making?!? Dave Wendler, Jenny Blumenthal-Barby, Teva Brender
December 12, 2024
Surrogate decision making has some issues. Surrogates often either don’t know what patients would want, or think they know but…
Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman
December 5, 2024
We’ve covered stories before. With Liz Salmi, Anne Kelly, and Preeti Malani we talked about stories written up in the…
Coping with Serious Illness: Danielle Chammas and Amanda Moment
November 21, 2024
Denial. Substance use. Venting. Positive reframing. Humor. Acceptance. All of these are ways we cope with stressful situations. Some we…
Falls and Fractures: A Podcast with Sarah Berry
November 14, 2024
Falls are very common among older adults but often go unreported or untreated by healthcare providers. There may be lots…
Dialysis vs Conservative Management for Older Adults: Manju Kurella Tamura, Susan Wong, & Maria Montez-Rath
November 7, 2024
We recently published a podcast on palliative care for kidney failure, focusing on conservative kidney management. Today we’re going to…
COVID Updates: A Podcast with Peter Chin-Hong and Lona Mody
October 31, 2024
In March 2020, we launched our first podcast on COVID-19. Over the past four years, we’ve seen many changes—some positive,…
Medical Cannabis Revisited: A Podcast with David Casarett and Eloise Theisen
October 24, 2024
Cannabis is complicated. It can mean many things, including a specific type of plant, the chemicals in the plant, synthetic…
Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster
October 17, 2024
When treating heart failure, how do we distinguish between the expanding list of medications recommended for “Guideline Directed Medical Therapy”…