Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSystem Wide Goals of Care Implementation: A Podcast with Ira Byock, Chris Dale, and Matt Gonzales
Episode 366
Most health care providers understand the importance of goals-of-care conversations in aligning treatment plans with patients' goals, especially for …
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Death Anxiety: Dani Chammas & Keri Brenner
Episode 365
What is death anxiety? We spend the first 15 minutes of the podcast addressing this question. And maybe this was unfair to our guests, the fabulous d…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Individualizing Blood Pressure Goals in Older Adults: A Podcast with Mitra Jamshidian, Simon Ascher and Mark Supiano
Episode 364
What's the ideal blood pressure target for older adults with hypertension? Should we aim for a systolic BP of 120 mmHg in all older adults, as sugges…
6 months ago
Should Palliative Care be in the Survivorship Business? A Podcast with Laura Petrillo, Laura Shoemaker
Episode 363
In this week's episode, we dig into two deceptively simple questions: When does someone become a cancer survivor, and should palliative care be in th…
6 months, 1 week ago
Health and Wealth Shocks: Lauren Hunt, Rebecca Rodin, Tsai-Chin Cho
Episode 362
June Lunney famously characterized the end of life functional course of people with dementia as a slow dwindle over time. Tom Gill later found that p…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt
Episode 361
Happy Pride Month GeriPal listeners!
Transgender issues are in the news. Just today (June 17th) as we record this podcast:
Ezra Klein released a wo…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
What You Should Know About Radiation Oncology: A Podcast with Anish Butala, Emily Martin and Evie Kalmar
Episode 360
If you're anything like me, you might find the process of what happens to patients when they visit a radiation oncologist somewhat mysterious. During…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes
Episode 359
The need for better palliative care in nursing homes is significant. Consider this: the majority of the 1.4 million adults residing in U.S. nursing h…
7 months ago
Lucid Episodes: Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi & Andrew Peterson
Episode 358
Have any of you watched the movie "The Notebook"? At the end, one of the characters, who has dementia, experiences an episode of lucidity. When I w…
7 months, 1 week ago
Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison
Episode 357
As you know, dear listeners, I love music. We start each podcast with a song in part to shift the frame, taking people out of their academic selves a…
7 months, 2 weeks ago