Expert Insights

  In this week's GeriPal podcast we talk with Guy Micco, MD, a longtime bioethicists, internist, hospice physician, teacher in the UC Berkeley and UCSF Joint Medical Program, mentor, and friend.   Guy and I wrote an article recently for...

How do you teach communication in serious illness?  Can you?  Do you teach it the same way to doctors and nurses in training?  What level trainee do you target - medical students, interns, residents?  How do we know our teaching is...

In this week's podcast we talk with Helen Kales, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan the VA Center for Clinical Management and Research.  We've spent a great deal of effort in Geriatrics describing what we shouldn't do...

In this week's GeriPal podcast we talk with Cynthia Boyd, Professor of Medicine and Geriatrician at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine about how physicians communicate with home health agencies. Home health plays a critical role...

      There is a lot of discussion about the right to die.   Although most of these have to do with Physician Assisted Death (PAD).   What about in those who are not dying but express a dire to end their lives in the absence of a...

  This is the first in a two part series on Geriatrics, Palliative Care, and Chronic Kidney Disease. One of our most popular GeriPal posts ever is titled, "Dying without Dialysis".  That post discusses an article on the symptomatic...

Annals of Long-Term Care is pleased to bring readers expert commentaries and podcasts through a new alliance with GeriPal, an online community of interdisciplinary providers interested in geriatrics or palliative care, featuring...

  On this week's podcast, we talk with the authors of a Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) article titled Should We Bury “The Good Death"?  As luck may have it, one of the authors is co-host Alex Smith, and the other...