A geriatrics and palliative care podcast for every health care professional. 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 controversies that keep us up at night. You'll laugh, learn and maybe sing along. Hosted by Eric Widera and Alex Smith. CME available!
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This podcast features the keynote speakers from "The UK Dementia and Palliative Care Conference 2025" which is organised by Rowcroft Hospice. The series explores the critical role of dementia and palliative care in supporting those living with dementia. Across these episodes, we’ll be sharing expert insights, real-life experiences, and innovative approaches to improving care All episodes were recorded live at Buckfast Abbey Conference Centre in Devon on Tuesday 25th March 2025. This podcast ...
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Palliative Care Chat - University of MD Baltimore
Palliative Care Chat - University of MD Baltimore
Brought to you by the online Master of Science and Graduate Certificates in Palliative Care from the University of Maryland, Baltimore. graduate.umaryland.edu/palliative
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Welcome to Life: Compassionate conversations around advanced illness and the end-of-life journey. This podcast is intended to provide insight and education into how hospice & palliative care services can help patients and families through the end-of-life journey. It is not intended to replace professional medical advice or diagnoses. We encourage you to seek advice from your physician for questions regarding a medical condition. Hosted by Hospice & Palliative Care of Iredell County’s Develop ...
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The Surgical Palliative Care Podcast features interviews with the founders and the leaders of the surgical palliative care community, a diverse group of surgeons, dedicated to providing high quality palliative medicine to all surgical and trauma patients. Tune in to learn the rich history of the surgical palliative care movement as well as to stay up to date on the latest research in the field. Hosted by Dr. Red Hoffman, the Surgical Palliative Care Podcast aims to educate, foster community ...
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Welcome to the official free Podcast site from SAGE Publications for Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care. SAGE is a leading international publisher of journals, books, and electronic media for academic, educational, and professional markets with principal offices in Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, and Singapore.
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Learning Disability and Dementia: Tailored Support and Resources
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21:39Professor Karen Watchman highlights the unique challenges of dementia in individuals with learning disabilities, focusing on differences in cognitive ability progression, seizure onset (especially in Down's syndrome), and communication of pain. She emphasises personalised support, relationship nurturing, and the role of caregivers. The episode show…
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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt
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48:24Happy Pride Month GeriPal listeners! Transgender issues are in the news. Just today (June 17th) as we record this podcast: Ezra Klein released a wonderful interview with Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender member of congress A judge ruled that cuts to NIH grants focused on minority groups, including transgender people, were illegal and orde…
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Asian family members’ participation in advance care planning: An integrative review
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3:47This episode features Jing-Da Pan (Department of Oncology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China School of Nursing, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China) What is already known about the topic? Family members are crucial in advance care planning for patients w…
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Supporting Family Carers with Rachel Johnstone from Dementia UK
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11:57In this episode, Rachel Johnstone from Dementia UK sheds light on how we can better support family carers of people living with dementia. Caring for a loved one with dementia brings unique emotional and practical challenges - from coping with anticipatory grief to navigating complex care systems and looking after one’s own wellbeing. Rachel explore…
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Health Technologies to Support People with Dementia
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10:37Dr. Rory Baxter and Leonie Cooper discuss digital health technologies for dementia, highlighting the benefits of robot pets and introducing the GOALD project, which co-creates digital tools for physical activity and reminiscence. The episode emphasises the crucial role of co-design in technology development for older adults and showcases the GOALD …
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The Duality of Caregiving: A Nurse’s Journey Through Personal Loss and Professional Duty: Dr Sarah Russell
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29:34This episode is an emotion and moving account of Sarah's experience of caring for her mother. Trigger Warning: This episode discusses terminal illness, caregiving, and the death of a loved one. Dr. Sarah Russell, Consultant Nurse and Trust Lead for Palliative and End of Life Care at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, explores the complex du…
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Implementing Namaste Care: A Sensory Approach to Advanced Dementia Care
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24:44Nicola Jacobson-Wright and Faith Frost present on Namaste Care, a sensory-based programme for advanced dementia. Their research shows it significantly reduces agitation and improves quality of life in care home residents. The episode highlights the programme's key elements, positive impacts on residents and staff, and also introduces an online cour…
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Supporting Families in Dementia End-of-Life Decisions: Prof Kevin Brazil
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35:17Prof Kevin Brazil discusses how families can be better supported in making crucial end-of-life care decisions for loved ones with advanced dementia. In this episode, Kevin will introduce the Family Carer Decision Support Intervention - a structured approach that combines practical tools, compassionate communication, and evidence-based guidance. Joi…
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What You Should Know About Radiation Oncology: A Podcast with Anish Butala, Emily Martin and Evie Kalmar
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49:44If 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 sessions, right?). Well, today’s podcast aims…
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The experience of nurses when providing care across acts that may be perceived as death hastening: A qualitative evidence synthesis
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4:41This episode features Victoria Ali (Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK. Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Bradford, UK) What is already known about the topic? Nurses deliver care for patients and those important to them across acts that may intentionally or potentially hasten death, navigating this care within the boundaries of hea…
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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes
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48:06The 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 United States occur within t…
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Lucid Episodes: Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi & Andrew Peterson
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48:55Have any of you watched the movie “The Notebook”? At the end, one of the characters, who has dementia, experiences an episode of lucidity. When I watched it, between tears (I’m a complete softie) I remember thinking, “Oh no! This will give people false hope! That their loved one is ‘in there.’ If only they could find the right key to unlock the loc…
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Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison
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42:03As you know, dear listeners, I love music. We start each podcast with a song in part to shift the frame, taking people out of their academic selves and into a more informal conversation. Well, today’s guests love music at least as much if not more than me, and they each make a strong case for music as medicine. Jenny Chen is a palliative care fello…
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Beyond the Taboo: Continence, Dignity, and Dementia Care with Dr. Zena Aldridge
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34:50In this powerful episode, Dr. Zena Aldridge explores one of the most overlooked yet impactful aspects of dementia care: promoting continence and managing incontinence with dignity. Drawing on the latest evidence and her experience as a leading dementia nurse consultant, she shares practical strategies, challenges stigma, and calls for a shift in ho…
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Silent Suffering: Understanding Pain in Dementia Patients with Dr Wilco Achterberg
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29:15Join Professor Wilco Achterberg from Leiden University Medical Center as he explores the complex challenges of identifying and treating pain in people with dementia. In this illuminating episode, Prof. Achterberg breaks down how the aging brain processes pain differently, especially in those with cognitive impairment, and why traditional pain asses…
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Decoding End-of-Life Care: How Big Data is Reshaping Dementia Support with Prof Liz Sampson
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33:44Join Professor Liz Sampson from Queen Mary University London as she reveals groundbreaking insights from the EMBED-Care programme, showcasing how big data is revolutionising palliative care for people with dementia. In this eye-opening episode, Dr. Sampson challenges common misconceptions about dementia care while presenting powerful evidence on he…
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Living with Dementia: Fred Caygill’s Personal Journey of Love, Loss, and Support
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7:39In this moving opening to the UK Dementia and Palliative Care Conference 2025, Fred Caygill, ambassador for Dementia UK, shares his powerful personal story of caring for his late wife, who lived with vascular dementia. Fred speaks candidly about the emotional challenges of caregiving and the life-changing support he received from Admiral Nurses. Hi…
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Nudges for Prognosis and Comfort Care in the ICU: Kate Courtright, Scott Halpern, & Jaspal Singh
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48:27Our main focus today was on nudging critical care clinicians to consider a more palliative approach to care. Our guests are all trained in critical care: Kate Courtright, Scott Halpern, and Jaspal Singh. Kate and Scott have additional training in palliative medicine. To start. we review: What is a nudge? Also called behavioral interventions, heuris…
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Mark Hawkins Welcome - UK Dementia & Palliative Care Conference 2025
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5:40Opening Remarks: Mark Hawkins, Rowcroft Hospice’s Chief Executive: Welcome to the UK Dementia & Palliative Care Conference 2025 Mark Hawkins sets the stage for the UK Dementia & Palliative Care Conference 2025. Reflecting on the challenges, progress, and shared mission within the field, Mark welcomes delegates to a day of collaboration, learning, a…
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Psilocybin in Serious Illness: A Podcast with James Downar, Ali John Zarrabi and Margaret Ross
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46:57We’ve covered psychedelics on the podcast before—first in 2019 with Ira Byock, where we explored their potential role in medicine, and then again in 2023 with Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, and Theora Cimino, focusing on the reasons to approach psychedelic use in patients with caution. In today’s episode, we’re taking a closer look at the current s…
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HIV, Aging, and Palliative Care: Peter Selwyn and Meredith Greene
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48:59Peter Selwyn, one of today’s guests, has been caring for people living with HIV for over 40 years. In that time, care of people with HIV has changed dramatically. Initially, there was no treatment, then treatments with marginal efficacy, complex schedules, and a tremendous burden of side effects and drug-drug interactions. The average age at death …
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Potentially Unsafe Low-evidence Treatments: Adam Marks, Laura Taylor, & Jill Schneiderhan
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45:26More and more people are, “doing their own research.” Self-identified experts and influencers on podcasts (podcasts!) and social media endorse treatments that are potentially harmful and have little to no evidence of benefit, or have only been studied in animals. An increasing number of federal leaders have a track record of endorsing such products…
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Loss of DEI Hurts Everyone: Farah Stockman, Ali Thomas, Ken Covinsky
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47:18I read Farah Stockman’s article in the NYT on why attacks on DEI will cost us all, and thought, “Yes, and ‘everyone’ includes harm to our healthcare workforce, our patients, and their families.” So we’re delighted that Farah Stockman, pulitzer prize winning journalist, author of American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears, and editor…
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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest
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50:34Early in my research career, I was fascinated by the (then) frontier area of palliative care in the emergency department. I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? This is not why I went into emergency medicine. I…
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GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundebjerg and Annie Medina-Walpole
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51:34Whelp, goodbye folks! Eric and I have been DOGE’d. In a somewhat delayed April Fools, Nancy Lundebjerg and Annie Medina-Walpole have taken over podcast host duties this week. Their purpose is to interview me, Eric, and Ken Covinsky about your final AGS literature review plenary session taking place at the Annual Meeting in Chicago this May (for tho…
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Pragmatic Trial of ACP: Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson
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47:04A pragmatic trial evaluates the effectiveness of a treatment or intervention in “real-world” clinical practice. Outcomes are typically assessed from available records. Eligibility in pragmatic trials are often broad, and don’t have the exclusions of efficacy studies, which examine treatment effects under highly controlled conditions in highly selec…
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