Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee
June 8, 2023
Diabetes is common. When I’m on nursing home call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar…
Group ACP and Equity: Sarah Nouri, Hillary Lum, LJ Van Scoy
May 25, 2023
Our guests today present an important rejoinder to the argument that we should refocus away from advance care planning (ACP). …
AGS Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use: A Podcast with Todd Semla and Mike Steinman
May 18, 2023
Hot off the press is a brand spanking new updated 2023 AGS Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in…
Prevention of Dementia: Kristine Yaffe
May 11, 2023
We’ve had multiple GeriPal episodes about treatments for dementia, including aducanumab (here, here, and here) and lecanemab (here). As today’s…
Why is working with adolescents and young adults so hard? Abby Rosenberg, Nick Purol, Daniel Eison, & Andrea Thach
May 4, 2023
I haven’t worked with many adolescents and young adults (AYA, roughly teens to twenties). But when I have, I find…
GeriPal Special: Hopes and Worries for Hospice and Palliative Care
April 27, 2023
We have a special extra podcast this week. During the last AAHPM – HPNA meeting in Montréal, we went around…
Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel
April 20, 2023
In 1990 11% of homeless persons were older than 50. Today half are over age 50. Today we talk with…
The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto
April 13, 2023
Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in…
RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley
April 6, 2023
Do we need an RCT to establish the worth of chaplaincy? Einstein once said, “Everything that can be counted does…
Storytelling in Medicine: A Podcast with Liz Salmi, Anne Kelly, and Preeti Malani
March 30, 2023
Two weeks ago on the GeriPal podcast we talked about why and how to write for the general public. This…