GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast

Holly Prigerson recalls the moments in which she started investigating prolonged grief disorder.  She recalls being “a social scientist [Holly] in room a full of psychiatrists,” who recognized a diag…

In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team social worker.  Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-…

Two major shifts are transforming the landscape of hospice.

First, private equity firms are gobbling up hospices.  As Melissa Aldridge, a health services researcher and former banker explains, we s…

Today we have the honor of interviewing Susan Block, MD, one of the pioneering leaders in the fields of palliative care, particularly psychosocial aspects of palliative care.  Susan led the Project …

A year ago we did our first “Deprescribing Super Special”.  Today we are coming back for more (or less given the content), talking about the following articles with their lead authors:

First up, we t…

We are fortunate today to interview two oncologists whose research has catapulted palliative care forward: Jennifer Temel, author of the landmark NEJM study on early outpatient palliative care for p…

The science of balancing safety and independence of older drivers has come a long way.  Some key points from our podcast today with Emmy Betz (emergency physician-researcher) and Terri Cassidy (occup…

“Imagine that you are the medical director of a large (>150 bed) nursing home. Two-thirds of the patients in the home now have COVID-19. Seventeen of your patients are dead. The other physicians who …

On today’s podcast we welcome back Haider Warraich to talk about pain.  Now this may surprise our frequent listeners as we have had Haider on before to talk about heart failure as well as palliativ…

You have a patient with dementia severe enough that she cannot recognize relatives.  She falls and breaks her hip.  Should she have an operation, and risk the pain, potential complications, and atten…

Cancer screening is designed to detect slow growing cancers that on average take 10 years to cause harm.  The benefits of mammography breast cancer screening rise with age, peak when women are in the…

There are a lot of old myths out there about managing urinary tract symptoms and UTI’s in older adults.  For example, we once thought that the lower urinary tract was sterile, but we now know it has …

We are two and a half years into the COVID pandemic.  We’ve lived through lockdowns, toilet paper shortages, mask mandates, hospital surges where ICU’s overflowed, a million COVID deaths, prolonged s…

A patient is on morphine and you want to convert it to another opioid like hydromorphone (dilaudid).   How do you do that?  Do you do what I do, pull out a handy-dandy opioid equianalgesic table to g…

Comics. Cartoons. Graphic Novels. Graphic Medicine.  I’m not sure what to title this podcast but I’ve been looking forward to it for some time.  Heck, I’m not even sure to call it a podcast, as I thi…

In celebration of National Poetry Month, we are delighted to share with you the second podcast in our series on poetry and medicine.  In the first podcast, we talked with Guy Micco and Marilyn MacEn…