Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long
December 2, 2022
What would it take to transform dementia care? While a lot of hope and money is being put into new…
Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky
November 17, 2022
Assisted Living Communities (no longer preferable to call them Assisted Living Facilities, as we learned on the podcast) are…what, exactly? …
Grief, Loss, and Wellness Debriefing: Vickie Leff, Matthew Loscalzo, Craig Blinderman
November 3, 2022
Health care professionals are human, and as humans we experience loss both in and out of work. You’d imagine though…
New Prognostic Models for Older Adults: Alex Lee, James Deardorff, Sei Lee
October 27, 2022
Dr. Faith Fitzgerald once quipped that prognostic modeling is the “punctilious quantification of the amorphous.” She has a point. Prognosis…
Demystifying the Role of HHS and ASPE in Guiding Federal Aging Policy and Priorities with Dr. Tisamarie Sherry
October 20, 2022
The Department of Health and Human Services helps to guide billions of dollars in investment and direction in research, policy,…
Updates in ID and Nephrology: Lona Mody, Rasheeda Hall, Devika Nair, Sonali Advani
October 13, 2022
When I’m on service these days there is inevitably a moment when a resident says “Patient so-and-so is on X”…
Evidence-Based Messaging for Serious Illness Care: A Podcast with Tony Back and Marian Grant
October 6, 2022
Earlier this year palliative care was the correct response to the following clue on the game show Jeopardy: From a…
Advanced Pain Management in Cancer: Janet Abrahm
September 29, 2022
Have you had difficulty managing a particular type of cancer pain? For me it’s radiation induced mucositis/esophagitis. Janet Abrahm is…
Avoiding the Uncanny Valley in Serious Illness Communication: Josh Briscoe
September 22, 2022
Have you ever had that moment when talking to a patient, when you realized that the phrase you just uttered,…
Aortic Stenosis, TAVRs, and Code Status: A Podcast with Gwen Bernacki and Ashok Krishnaswami
September 15, 2022
Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has revolutionized the treatment of valvular heart disease for patients with severe aortic stenosis, a…