Jun 26, 2025
June Lunney famously characterized the end of life functional course of people with dementia as a slow dwindle over time. Tom Gill later found that people with dementia do indeed have persistent severe disability throughout the last year of their lives.
But from our clinical work, many of us are familiar with people...
Jun 19, 2025
Happy Pride Month GeriPal listeners!
Transgender issues are in the news. Just today (June 17th) as we record this podcast:
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Ezra Klein released a wonderful interview with Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender member of congress
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A judge ruled that cuts to NIH grants focused on minority groups,...
Jun 12, 2025
If you’re anything like me, you might find the process of what happens to patients when they visit a radiation oncologist somewhat mysterious. During my training, I didn’t receive much education about radiation oncology, and I’m not entirely sure what some of the terms mean (hypofractionated means fewer...
Jun 5, 2025
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. nursing homes grapple with serious illnesses, and roughly half experience dementia. Many also suffer from distressing symptoms like pain. In addition, about 25% of all deaths in the...