COVID-19

We are doing our best to talk with individuals on the front lines of the COVID pandemic.   Here are some links to our most recent podcasts focused on COVID:

1. Covid19: Podcast with Lona Mody and John Mills We also discuss the following resources for communication in this podcast
2. Rationing Life Saving Treatments in the Setting of COVID Pandemics: A Podcast with Doug White and James Frank
3. Palliative care on the front lines of COVID: Podcast with Darrell Owens
4. COVID in New York - and on the Front Lines: Podcast with Cynthia Pan
5. COVID in New York 2: Podcast with Craig Blinderman, Shunichi Nakagawa, and Ana Berlin
6. COVID in New York 3: Podcast with Audrey Chun and Sheila Barton
7. COVID in Long Term Care: Podcast with Jim Wright and David Grabowski 
8. How are hospices responding to the COVID pandemic? Podcast with Kai Romero and Todd Cote
9. Therapeutic Presence in the Time of COVID: Podcast with Keri Brenner and Dani Chammas
10. The State of COVID19 in Boston: Podcast with Zara Cooper, Rachelle Bernacki, and Ricky Leiter
11. Life Right After the Surge: A Podcast with NYU Clinicians Ab Brody and Audrey Tan
12. Love Letter to Mount Sinai
13. The Outsized Impact of COVID in Nursing Homes & in Dementia: Guests Kathleen Unroe and Ellen Kaehr
14. What is Emotional PPE? Podcast with Dani Chammas
15. Should Age be Used To Ration Scarce Resources? Podcast with Tim Farrell and Doug White
16. COVID19 in Prisons: Podcast with Brie Williams, Adnan Khan, & Eric Maserati-E Abercrombie
17. Ramping up Tele-GeriPal in a Pandemic: Claire Ankuda, Chris Woodrell, Ashwin Kotwal, and Lynn Flint
18. Hospital-Based Nurses Help Mitigate COVID-19 in Nursing Homes
19. Rationing of Scarce COVID-19 Drug Treatments: A Podcast with Drs. DeJong, Chen, and White
20. Outsized Impact of COVID19 on Minority Communities: Podcast with Monica Peek and Alicia Fernandez 
21. Communication Skills in a time of Crises: A Podcast with VitalTalk Faculty Drs. Back and Anderson
    
22. Ageism in the Time of COVID: Podcast with Louise Aronson
    
23. The Perfect Storm of COVID‐19 in Nursing Homes: A Podcast with Joe Ouslander
    
24. Importance of Function in COVID Prognosis: Podcast with Orestis Panagiotou, Elizabeth White, and Marlon Aliberti
    
25. COVID Vaccine Hesitancy in Frontline Nursing Home Staff: A podcast with Sarah Berry, Kimberly Johnson, and David Gifford
    
26. Ageism + COVID19 = Elder Genocide: Podcast on nursing homes with Mike Wasserman

 

Also, here are some posts that we have published on COVID:

• What is the prognosis of COVID-19?
• Catastrophic Thinking and COVID19
• Palliative Care in the Era of COVID 
• Grieving at a Distance 
• Updates in Prognosis for COVID: Is it really true that 88% of patients on ventilators don't make it?
• Advance Care Planning should be revisited proactively during the COVID-19 Pandemic 
• Capturing Pandemic Lessons Learned for Local Health Departments and Long-Term Care Facilities 
  

Lastly, some important geriatrics and palliative care links on COVID:

• Lessons Learned
• Jim Wrights lessons learned in LTC
• Goals of Care Discussions
• NEJM Free Content: Family Meetings on Behalf of Patients with Serious Illness
  
• Prepareforyourcare COVID-19 resource page
• Brief COVID Goals of Care Guide for Outpatients at High Risk, adapted by SFVA Palliative Care
• Vital Talk COVID-Ready Communication Skills
• CAPC COVID-19 Response Resources
• Respecting Choices COVID-19 Resources
• Ariadne Labs Information on Coronavirus
• ACP Decisions Video: COVID-19: What It Is and Ways to Prepare and Protect Yourself
• National Geri and Pal Organizations COVID Pages 
• American Geriatrics Society
• NHPCO's Coronavirus resource
• American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Care Medicine (AAHPM)
• Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) 
• Social Work Hospice and Palliative Care Network
• Association of Professional Chaplains