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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 Med…
8 years, 11 months ago
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 i…
9 years ago
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, es…
9 years, 1 month ago
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.
9 years, 1 month ago
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 tr…
9 years, 1 month ago
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 re…
9 years, 1 month ago
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…
9 years, 2 months ago
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 fin…
9 years, 2 months ago
When Breath Becomes Air - A Review of a Review
The second GeriPal podcast is a book review of "When Breath Becomes Air."
9 years, 2 months ago
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.
9 years, 3 months ago