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The Language of Serious Illness: A Podcast with Sunita Puri, Bob Arnold, and Jacqueline Kruser
Episode 283
Communicating about a serious illness is hard. Last week's podcast we talked about the challenge around miscommunication in serious illness. This wee…
3 years ago
Miscommunication in Medicine: A podcast with Shunichi Nakagawa, Abby Rosenberg and Don Sullivan
Episode 282
Medical communication is tough, although fundamentally at its most basic unit of delivery, it includes really only three steps. First, a clinician's …
3 years, 1 month ago
Black/African American Caregivers of Older Adults Living with Dementia: Podcast with Fayron Epps and Karen Moss
Episode 281
The proportion of people living with dementia who identify as Black/African Americans is on the rise, and so too are the proportion of caregivers who…
3 years, 1 month ago
Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones
Episode 280
Hospitals are hazardous places for older adults. These hazards include delirium, malnutrition, falls, infections, and hospital associated disability …
3 years, 1 month ago
Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons
Episode 279
The comprehensive geriatric assessment is one of the cornerstones of geriatrics. But does the geriatric assessment do anything? Does it improve outco…
3 years, 1 month ago
Normalcy, introspection, & the experience of serious illness: Bill Gardner, Juliet Jacobsen, and Brad Stuart
Episode 278
How do people react when they hear they have a serious illness? Shock, "like a car is rushing straight at me" (says Bill Gardner on our podcast). A…
3 years, 1 month ago
Dignity at the End of Life: A Podcast with Harvey Chochinov
Episode 277
I hear the word dignity used a lot in the medical setting, but I'm never sure what people mean when they use it. You'd imagine that as a seasoned pa…
3 years, 2 months ago
Amyloid Antibodies and the Role of the Geriatrician: Nate Chin, Sharon Brangman, and Jason Karlawish
Episode 276
It's been over two years since one of the worst product launches of all time - Aduhelm (aducanumab). Praised by the FDA, Alzheimer's Association (AA…
3 years, 2 months ago
Sleep problems and Insomnia in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Cathy Alessi and Brienne Miner
Episode 275
Insomnia. We've all had it. Lying in bed at 2 am staring at the ceiling, getting anxious every hour that you're not falling asleep as you have a busy…
3 years, 3 months ago
Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brook Calton, Carly Zapata
Episode 174
There's a saying, "never let a crisis go to waste." The pandemic was horrific in many ways. One positive change that came about was the lifting of …
3 years, 3 months ago