GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast

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

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Update frequency: every 7 days
Average duration: 42 minutes
Episodes: 373
Years Active: 2016 - 2025

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Driving a Cultural Shift in the End Of Life Experience: A Podcast with Shoshana Ungerleider on "Take 10"

What does it mean to create a cultural shift to the end of life experience? Is it even possible? How do you even start something like that?

On today's podcast, we talk to Shoshana Ungerleider abo…

00:42:26 | Thu 03 Dec 2020

Time to Benefit of Statins for Primary Prevention: A Podcast with Lindsey Yourman and Sei Lee

How long does it take to see a benefit of statin therapy for primary prevention of cardiovascular events in adults aged 50 to 75 years? That's the question we try to answer with our two guests today…

00:44:58 | Fri 20 Nov 2020

Age Friendly Health Systems: Podcast with Julia Adler-Milstein and Stephanie Rogers

An age friendly health system is one in which everyone, from the doctors to the nurses to the people cleaning the rooms are aware of the unique needs of older adults. These needs are categorized aro…

00:40:02 | Fri 13 Nov 2020

Crisis Communication and Grief in the Emergency Department: Podcast with Naomi George and Kai Romero

The Emergency Department (ED) is a hard place to have serious illness discussions, whether it be goals of care or code status discussions, or whether or not to consider intubation for a seriously ill…

00:45:36 | Thu 05 Nov 2020

Palliative Care for non-cancer illness: Podcast with Kieran Quinn and Krista Harrison

In this week's podcast we talk with Kieran Quinn, author of a systematic review and meta-analysis of palliative care for non-cancer illness, published in JAMA. We also talk with Krista Harrison, fir…

00:48:51 | Thu 29 Oct 2020

State of Heart Failure & Palliative Care: Podcast with Haider Warraich

There are a lot of large numbers that involve heart failure, starting with the sheer number of patients diagnosed (6.5 million and counting), to the cost of their care (~$70 billion by 2030), to the …

00:48:15 | Thu 22 Oct 2020

The Geriatric 5M Approach to Telemedicine Assessment: A Podcast with Lauren Moo

On todays podcast, we have Lauren Moo, a cognitive behavioral neurologist who has been doing video visits well before the COVID-19 pandemic to decrease the need for travel and to decrease the agitati…

00:39:01 | Thu 15 Oct 2020

Advance Care Planning is So Right: Podcast with Rebecca Sudore and Ryan McMahan

Last month we published a podcast with Sean Morrison that garnered a great deal of attention, in which Sean Morrison argued that Advance Care Planning is an idea that is “clear, simple, and wrong.” T…

00:48:36 | Thu 08 Oct 2020

Brain Death: A Podcast with Robert Truog

In 1968 a committee at Harvard Medical School met to lay down the groundwork for a new definition of death, one that was no longer confined to the irreversible cessation of cardiopulmonary function b…

00:46:02 | Thu 01 Oct 2020

It's Time for Comprehensive Dementia Care: Podcast with Lee Jennings and Chris Callahan

Chris Callahan (of Indiana University) and Lee Jennings (University of Oklahoma) have some righteous anger. Why do we have comprehensive cancer care centers and not comprehensive dementia care center…

00:42:05 | Thu 24 Sep 2020

Reducing serious fall-related injuries: an interview with NEJM STRIDE Study author Tom Gill

Every year, about a third of older adults fall. About one in five of those falls result in moderate to severe injury. What can we do to help not only prevent those falls but also the complications of…

00:49:37 | Thu 17 Sep 2020

Family Meetings for Patients with Serious Illness: Podcast with Eric Widera

No dear listeners and readers, that is not a typo. Eric Widera is indeed our guest today to discuss his first author publication in the New England Journal of Medicine, Family Meetings on Behalf of P…

00:49:17 | Thu 10 Sep 2020

The Perfect Storm of COVID‐19 in Nursing Homes: A Podcast with Joe Ouslander

COVID-19 has created a perfect storm in nursing homes. As noted in a recent Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) article by Joe Ouslander and David Grabowski, the storm is created by the…

00:42:27 | Thu 03 Sep 2020

Advance Care Planning is Wrong: Podcast with Sean Morrison

Sean Morrison dropped a bomb. It's a perspective I've heard before from outside of palliative care, most clearly by bioethicists Angie Fagerlin and Carl Schnieder in their landmark article Enough: Th…

00:46:03 | Thu 27 Aug 2020

Ageism in the Time of COVID: Podcast with Louise Aronson

In this week's GeriPal podcast we talk with Louise Aronson, author of the Pulitzer prize finalist Elderhood (https://www.amazon.com/Elderhood-Redefining-Transforming-Medicine-Reimagining/dp/162040546…

00:43:05 | Tue 28 Jul 2020

Communication Skills in a time of Crises: A Podcast with VitalTalk Faculty Drs. Back and Anderson

Despite being in the field over 15 years, I've never felt so far outside my comfort zone as as palliative care provider as I have felt in the last four months. A worldwide pandemic of a novel virus h…

00:53:59 | Thu 18 Jun 2020

Elder Mistreatment: Podcast with Laura Mosqueda

If you looked at the academic literature, you would think that elder abuse and neglect, collectively called elder mistreatment, did not exist before the 1990s. Of course that's not true at all, it wa…

00:48:11 | Thu 11 Jun 2020

Outsized Impact of COVID19 on Minority Communities: Podcast with Monica Peek and Alicia Fernandez

This was a remarkable podcast. Eric and I were blown away by the eloquence of our guests, who were able to speak to this moment in which our country is hurting in so many ways. Today's topic is the i…

00:46:22 | Thu 04 Jun 2020

Rationing of Scarce COVID-19 Drug Treatments: A Podcast with Drs. DeJong, Chen, and White

The question of who should get limited supplies of drugs that treat COVID-19 is not a theoretical question, like what seems to have happened with ventilators in the US. This is happening now. Hospita…

00:49:34 | Tue 02 Jun 2020

Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: Podcast with Laura Petrillo

Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors. They are revolutionary and transforming cancer care. They shrink tumors and extend lives. Plus they have a better side effect profile than traditional therapies for cond…

00:39:03 | Fri 29 May 2020

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