GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast
Alex Smith, Eric Widera
A geriatrics and palliative medicine podcast for every health care professional.
Two UCSF doctors, Eric Widera and Alex Smith, invite the brightest minds in geriatrics, hospice, and palliative care to talk about the topics that you care most about, ranging from recently published research in the field to controversies that keep us up at night. You'll laugh, learn, and maybe sing along.
CME and MOC credit available (AMA PRA Category 1 credits) at www.geripal.org
Two UCSF doctors, Eric Widera and Alex Smith, invite the brightest minds in geriatrics, hospice, and palliative care to talk about the topics that you care most about, ranging from recently published research in the field to controversies that keep us up at night. You'll laugh, learn, and maybe sing along.
CME and MOC credit available (AMA PRA Category 1 credits) at www.geripal.org
Episodes
Mentioned books
Jan 22, 2017 • 23min
Vicki Jackson on Building the Evidence Base for Palliative Care
On todays podcast, we talk with Vicki Jackson, Chief of the Palliative Care Division at Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, about her work in building the evidence base for palliative care.
Dec 15, 2016 • 20min
Rejecting Neutrality - Reducing Burdensome Hospitalizations For Nursing Home Residents
Nursing home residents are often sent to the hospital for care that often offers little hope of improving quality of life or changing the course of illness. Some facilities though seem to do much better in preventing these "potentially burdensome hospitalizations". We discuss with Andrew Cohen, the lead author of a recent JAMA IM paper on this subject, to learn a little about what is in the secret sauce of these exceptional nursing homes.
Dec 8, 2016 • 21min
Improving Serious Illness Communication By Developing Formulations
Clinical formulations, something that few of us outside of mental health providers know about, but are critical in improving communication skills, especially around serious illness. Learn about them from our special guest, Dani Chammas, who makes the case that the single most valuable thing clinicians can do to improve communication is to get into the practice of developing a formulation.
Dec 1, 2016 • 25min
The Conversation - Angelo Volandes On Video Advance Care Planning
On todays podcast, we talk with Angelo Volandes about the use of video to improve advance care planning.
Nov 22, 2016 • 22min
Cranberries and Urinary Tract Infections
Just in time for Thanksgiving, we are having an episode dedicated to the humble cranberry. We discuss the use of cranberries to preventing urinary tract infections with Dr. Manisha Juthani-Mehta. In addition to hearing about something called proanthocyanidin, we discuss her recent publication in JAMA on whether cranberry capsules decrease the presence of bacteriuria plus pyuria in older women living in nursing homes.
Nov 19, 2016 • 25min
Hallelujah: Integrating Primary Palliative Care In The ICU
There are a lot of ways one can imagine on how to integrate palliative care into the intensive care unit (ICU). Today, we talk with ICU doctor and researcher, Bill Ehlenback, about his recent study of a proactive palliative care rounding intervention.
Nov 2, 2016 • 27min
Sweet Little Lies: When Is It Ok To Lie To Patients?
Truth telling is an ethical pillar of medicine. But, are there instances when it is ever ok to lie? In this episode of the GeriPal podcast we explore the use of deception and lies in modern healthcare, including those sweet little "therapeutic lies" commonly used in dementia care. For more about this topic, and some good articles about it, visit GeriPal.org.
Oct 27, 2016 • 15min
Keep Your Hands To Yourself - Mechanical ventilation in Advanced Dementia
This week's GeriPal podcast is all about mechanical ventilation in nursing home residents with advanced dementia. In particular, we discuss a new finding that use of mechanical ventilation doubled for these individuals from 2000 to 2013 without a substantial improvement in survival.
Oct 18, 2016 • 15min
When Breath Becomes Air - A Review of a Review
The second GeriPal podcast is a book review of "When Breath Becomes Air."
Oct 5, 2016 • 15min
Bed Alarms and why Not to Use Them
This is the first of the GeriPal podcasts focused on all things geriatrics, hospice, and palliative care.
