Can it be appropriate to do a total knee replacement on a 95 year old patient? Wonderful article shows how patient-centered decision making focusing on knowing your patient + what matters most to them can lead to a definitive Yes. Sometimes more is more
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#PalliativeCare Nursing & ELNEC (End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium) with Betty Ferrell, ELNEC founder. We discuss its origin, impact on nursing education, special role of nurses in palliative care + more.

Episode bit.ly/GeriPalEp308 - hosts Alex Smith, MD | Eric Widera, MD

Always a good day for talking and thinking about art, activism, & academia with Emancipatory Sciences Lab

Brilliant innovation - peer support program for Black/African American dementia family caregivers - former caregivers serve as mentors to current caregivers.

Read about PI Karen Moss here generations.asaging.org/why-pair-2-car…

+ listen to GeriPal - A Geriatrics & Palliative Care Podcast pod: geripal.org/black-african-…

HT Bobby Green for sharing

So many learning points in one piece, kudos Louise Aronson

There is more than the code status. It's amazing after decades we still can not understand patient goals/values are different than ours

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When it comes to #AI in health care, says UCSF chief of medicine Dr. Bob Wachter, “I can see 1,000 ways that this will make [health care delivery] better.” On the GeriPal - A Geriatrics & Palliative Care Podcast podcast, he delves into the data.
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Gripping essay from Louise Aronson nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

You put one toe on the aggressive care escalator and off you go, powerless to stop it (my tweet length summary, read the whole essay). Shouldn't be this way. #hapc #meded #geriatrics UCSF Geriatrics

Increasing interest in geriatric medicine through participation of pre-medical students in a specialized HELP program. #geriatrics agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jg…

Superb and infuriating piece by UC San Francisco colleague (& great writer) Louise Aronson about how her mom's clear, documented wish to avoid aggressive care at the end of life was ignored by a medical team locked into a we-did-this-so-we-must-do-that spiral. NEJM nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

A terrific, generous, wise geriatrics leader and mentor—we are very fortunate to have her at UCSF.

A joy talking AI & healthcare on the GeriPal - A Geriatrics & Palliative Care Podcast podcast w/ Alex Smith, MD & Eric Widera, MD. On top of discussions re: will AI replace MDs and on deskilling, you'll hear me sing/play a song (at start) and demo GPT-4 telling a young parent she has cancer (@ 19:00)
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'Guideline Recommendations on Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia: A Systematic Review' (JAMDA 2024) - jamda.com/article/S1525-…

Great opportunity for early-stage clinician investigators pursuing aging research and training The Pepper OAIC Coordinating Center The AGING Initiative The National Institute on Aging (NIA) NIDUS Delirium Network US Deprescribing Research Network (USDeN) Research Centers Collaborative Network (RCCN) American Geriatrics Society The John A. Hartford Foundation Alliance for Aging Research

Promise & Pitfalls of AI: Will AI transform #Healthcare ? Is AI more empathetic than human clinicians (recent studies say Yes). Will AI de-skill clinicians? + much more. Guest Bob Wachter, Chair of Medicine at UCSF.

Episode bit.ly/GeriPalEp307 - hosts Alex Smith, MD | Eric Widera, MD

Thanks to the hosts and visiting profs who have participated in this program. Helping to create national connections in palliative care research! The National Institute on Aging (NIA) MGH Center for Aging and Serious Illness (CASI) Mount Sinai GeriPal UCSF Geriatrics Dio Kavalieratos and many more!

The JAGS has launched an ongoing Diversity in Research on Aging series that will examine diversity of participants in research. Check out this editorial for a closer look: ow.ly/1sAc50RhFSm

A thread about Medicare Advantage, its tendency to deny claims for post-acute care and rehabilitation for older Americans, and our new @JAGS paper.

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What should we be more worried about in medical decision-making, ambivalence or the lack thereof? We discuss this and more about ambivalence in this week's GeriPal podcast. #meded geripal.org/ambivalence-in…

'Predicting the risks of kidney failure and death in adults with moderate to severe chronic kidney disease' (BMJ 2024) - 'by presenting kidney failure and death risk predictions, KDpredict supports holistic decision making' - bmj.com/content/385/bm… & kdpredict.com

Thiago Avelino-Silva, MD, PhD (Thiago J. Avelino-Silva), current T32 fellow, and his mentee Raif Restivo Simão won the Best Abstract Award at GERP 2024 ( #Geriatrics and Gerontology Conference of Sao Paolo)! Learn more: medicine.ucsf.edu/news/thiago-av…