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We 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 controve...
In this episode of the GeriPal podcast, we dive into the fascinating world of geriatric dermatology, or "GeriDerm," with two exceptional gue...
Eric and I were delighted to be invited to Brazil to give a series of presentations in Sao Paulo at their annual geriatrics meeting. We met...
Lynn Flint and Anne Kelly join as hosts in a reprise of last year's ask us anything format. Thank you for sending in your terrific questions...
Rural populations in the United States face unique healthcare challenges. These communities tend to be older, have higher mortality rates, a...
Today we're delighted to talk with Anne Walling, Neil Wenger, and Rebecca Sudore about a pragmatic implementation trial aimed at increasing...
In 2025, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) began requiring hospitals participating in the Hospital Inpatient Quality Repo...
A few weeks ago, I was skimming this NEJM paper for UCSF's Division of Geriatrics Journal club on de-prescribing anti-hypertensive medicatio...
It's an era of breakthroughs in Alzheimer's research, yet for many clinicians, it's also a time of profound uncertainty. We are currently na...
Today we're doing something different. Today, dear listeners, you get two podcasts for the price of one! (OK, our podcasts are both free, bu...
Philippe Pinel remarked in 1800 that "It is an art of no little importance to administer medicines properly, but it is an art of much greate...
Do you think your hospital should allow unilateral DNR orders? Under what circumstances? Through what process? Do you think that when you ob...
The idea of embedding various forms of non-emergency care in the emergency department makes a WORLD of sense. If an older adult comes into t...
Today we interviewed Bob Wachter about his book, " A Giant Leap: How AI Is Transforming Healthcare and What That Means for Our Future ." You...
Recent randomized controlled trials have shown that routine perioperative palliative care does not improve outcomes for patients undergoing...
"I just want to say one word to you. One word. Plastics… There's a great future in plastics." This iconic line from the movie The Graduate i...
The only certainty in medicine is uncertainty. It touches every aspect of clinical practice, from diagnosis to treatment to prognosis. Despi...
In a recent episode of the GeriPal podcast, we explored whether the field of palliative care is in need of saving —and, if so, how to save i...
Have you had one of those consults in which you're thinking, huh, sounds like the patient's goals are clear, it's really that the clinician...
In this week's podcast, we sit down with Drs. Sarguni Singh, Christian Furman, and Lynn Flint, three authors of the recent Journal of the Am...
Six years ago we had John Newman on GeriPal to talk about Geroscience (Song choice Who Wants to Live Forever by Queen, perfect selection). J...
In this week's episode, we delve into the powerful documentary The Chaplain and The Doctor with two extraordinary guests: Betty Clark, the c...
In June of 2025, hospice and palliative care pioneer Ira Byock published a white paper outlining the urgent challenges facing the field toda...
Today's topic on palliative care for sickle cell disease may raise eyebrows with some of you. You might think, wait, now we're doing sickle...
Last month, the "Billing Boys"—Chris Jones and Phil Rodgers—joined the GeriPal podcast to demystify medical billing and coding in palliative...
I'm going to begin with a wonderful quote from a recent editorial in Bioethics by our guests Parker Crutchfield & Jason Wasserman. This quot...
This is the second GeriPal podcast we've recorded live using this format, see this link to our prior podcast at the Center to Advance Pallia...
Eric and I had the pleasure of doing a GeriPal Live! Podcast as the closing keynote for the recent Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC)...
We love getting requests from listeners for podcast topics. This request came from geriatricians we met at the annual American Geriatrics So...
What is a "good death"? How should we define it, and who gets to decide? Is the concept of a "good death" even useful? Twenty-five years ago...
A podcast on medical billing and coding??? Ok, hear us out as we were skeptical too. We've invited the Billing Boys, Chris Jones and Phil Ro...
On today's podcast, we talk about an innovative specialized primary care model for older veterans called the Geriatric Patient Aligned Care...
With all the attention focused on Alzheimer's biomarkers and amyloid antibodies, it's easy to forget that comprehensive dementia care is mor...
In today's podcast we talk with Eric Wong, geriatrician-researcher from Toronto, and Thiago Silva, geriatrician-researcher from Brazil, abou...
On a prior podcast we talked with Todd Semla and Mike Steinman about the update to the AGS Beers Criteria of potentially inappropriate medic...
Health care trainees rotate through a variety of different settings. ICUs, hospital wards, and outpatient clinics. If they're lucky, they mi...
In his book, " Why We Revolt ," Victor Montori decries the industrialization of healthcare. We've become a healthcare factory, beholden to h...
Most health care providers understand the importance of goals-of-care conversations in aligning treatment plans with patients' goals, especi...
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 f...
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,...
In this week's episode, we dig into two deceptively simple questions: When does someone become a cancer survivor, and should palliative care...
June Lunney famously characterized the end of life functional course of people with dementia as a slow dwindle over time. Tom Gill later fou...
Happy Pride Month GeriPal listeners! Transgender issues are in the news. Just today (June 17th) as we record this podcast: Ezra Klein releas...
If you're anything like me, you might find the process of what happens to patients when they visit a radiation oncologist somewhat mysteriou...
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....
Have any of you watched the movie " The Notebook "? At the end, one of the characters, who has dementia, experiences an episode of lucidity....
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...
Our main focus today was on nudging critical care clinicians to consider a more palliative approach to care. Our guests are all trained in c...
We've covered psychedelics on the podcast before—first in 2019 with Ira Byock, where we explored their potential role in medicine , and then...
Peter Selwyn, one of today's guests, has been caring for people living with HIV for over 40 years. In that time, care of people with HIV has...
More and more people are, " doing their own research. " Self-identified experts and influencers on podcasts (podcasts!) and social media end...