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GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast

Jan 29, 2021

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) older adults have lived through a lifetime of discrimination, social stigma, prejudice, and marginalization.  Is the care that we are giving them in later life changing any of that or are we pushing them back into the closet?

This is what we talk about in this week's podcast...


Jan 21, 2021

On the one hand, every year we are fortunate to have new medications that help older adults and people living with serious illness.  New treatments for lung cancer with remarkable survival outcomes come to mind, for example.  

On the other hand, the tremendous growth in medications has led to an explosion...


Jan 14, 2021

Most of us know we are going to die.  How often though do we actually let ourselves really internalize that understanding?   To imagine it?  To feel it?  To try to accept it?

On today’s podcast we invited BJ Miller back on our podcast to talk about death using as our guide his recent NY Times editorial What Is...


Jan 7, 2021

Many of us in geriatrics and palliative care assume that we are the experts in health care when it comes to understanding the caregiver experience.  Every once in a while, we are humbled and reminded of what we don’t know.

Jessica Zitter had such an experience.  Jessica, as many of you know, is an award winning author...