Who Should Palliative Care See? Diane Meier, Bob Arnold, and Justin Sanders
As Diane Meier remarks to start today's podcast, palliative care has come a long way from the days when we were the "brink of death" consult...
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GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast
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...
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20 of 414 episodesLATE vs Alzheimer's: Biomarkers, Mixed Dementia, and Clinical Realities with Nate Chin & Sterling Johnson
Up until just a couple years ago, an 85-year-old patient presenting with gradual, amnestic memory loss was almost automatically presumed to...
Video-Enhanced Advance Care Planning: Joshua Lakin and Kei Ouchi
Can simple, evidence-based video decision aids—paired with structured clinician training—improve Advance Care Planning (ACP) documentation a...
Longevity Treatments - Snake Oil or Breakthrough? John Newman & Mahtab Jafari
The longevity industry is booming. Influencers are promoting this and that as promoting healthy aging, longevity, and healthspan, and it's h...
Who Should Deliver Palliative Care in Liver Disease? Chris Woodrell, Manisha Verma, Marie Bakitas
Who's better at delivering palliative care to patients with liver disease: palliative care specialists, or hepatologists who have received l...
Why you should care about the shakeup at NIH: Sean Morrison, Ken Covinsky, Stacy Fischer
Emergency Podcast! Our guests Sean Morrison, Ken Covinsky, and Stacy Fischer believe that you should care deeply about the proposed shakeup...
How We Limit Non-beneficial Life Sustaining Treatments: Jason Batten, Liz Dzeng, Teva Brender
Today's podcast is a natural follow up to our podcasts on Slow Codes and Unilateral DNR orders .Today we talk about a new study about how cl...
Elder Mistreatment Prevention and Solutions: Carrie Rubenstein, Julia Hiner, & Tony Rosen
Today we revisit a topic we last discussed in a 2020 podcast with Laura Mosqueda : elder mistreatment. Our guests today are geriatricians Ca...
CCRCs, ALFs, and Private Equity: John Burton, Bill Applegate, & Melissa Aldridge
Two retired luminaries in geriatrics join us today to share their personal experiences. First, John Burton, a geriatrician and Director of t...
Search for Geriatrician Identity: Mary Tinetti, Helen Fernandez, Jerry Gurwitz, Ken Covinsky
Our focus today is on the search for the geriatrician identity, a continuation of the conversation we started with Jerry Gurtwitz on the Fut...
The Interior Experience of Prescribing Medical Aid in Dying: Carly Zapata and Dani Chammas
I had the privilege of learning from fellow Greenwall Faculty Scholar Lisa Harris about a term she termed, " dangertalk ." As an ob/gyn and...
Navigating Organ Donation Discussions: Toby Campbell, Nikole Neidlinger, Samantha Taylor
While we have previously discussed brain death criteria on the GeriPal Podcas t, we have yet to explore the complex landscape families face...
Dermatology in Older Adults (GeriDerm): Daniel Butler and Eleni Linos
In this episode of the GeriPal podcast, we dive into the fascinating world of geriatric dermatology, or "GeriDerm," with two exceptional gue...
GeriPal Live from Sao Paulo! Eduardo Ferriolli, Marlon Aliberti, & Edison Iglesias
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...
400th Episode Celebration: Ask Us Anything, Hot Ones-style
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 Palliative Care: Karl Bezak, Jeanie Youngwerth, Adie Goldberg, and Gregg Vandekieft
Rural populations in the United States face unique healthcare challenges. These communities tend to be older, have higher mortality rates, a...
Pragmatic Trial to Increase Advance Care Planning: Anne Walling, Neil Wenger, & Rebecca Sudore
Today we're delighted to talk with Anne Walling, Neil Wenger, and Rebecca Sudore about a pragmatic implementation trial aimed at increasing...
CMS's Age-Friendly Hospital Measure: Julia Adler-Milstein, Stephanie Rogers, and Shari Ling
In 2025, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) began requiring hospitals participating in the Hospital Inpatient Quality Repo...
De-intensify Anti-Hypertensives for Nursing Home Residents? Athanase Benetos and Mike Steinman
A few weeks ago, I was skimming this NEJM paper for UCSF's Division of Geriatrics Journal club on de-prescribing anti-hypertensive medicatio...
Alzheimer's Definitions, Biomarkers, and Antibodies: Halima Amjad, Barak Gaster, and Heather Whitson
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...