GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. And so I did all of my research training in health services research, health policy, and then was very grateful to be recruited by Dr. Christine Ritchie when she transitioned here to MGH in September of 2020.

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Chicago Caregiving

APRIL 20, 2022

Almost 75 percent of Americans who died from the coronavirus from January 2020 to April 2022 were aged 65 or older, according to CDC data. The pandemic has been an especially difficult and confusing time for seniors, says Erika Hutz, DO, a specialist in geriatric and internal medicine at Swedish Medical Group.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Like, just even having that and normalizing it, and, like, after 13 years of training or 15 or whatever, chaplains, nurses, social workers, patient care assistants, everyone is working in these systems that are not built to take care of them. This whole idea that our worth is not equal to our productivity. I can make decisions quickly.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

I think that’s something we’ve seen even with the most recent issues that came out, not new issues, but came to the surface with the racial reckoning that we saw in 2020 related to murders and deaths and killings and that sort of stuff that helps to reshape how we refer to different groups of individuals in our community.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

You were on a National Academy of Sciences committee started in 2020? For example, bachelor’s degrees for social workers. Eric: All right, let’s jump into this topic. Improving nursing home quality. Jasmine, I’m going to start with you. Jasmine: Yes. Eric: On improving the quality of nursing home care.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

That was January 2020. We had, you know, it was a Monday night in June of 2020. And Rachel Rush, who is a pediatric social. A palliative care social worker now at Colorado. Alex 32:22 Geriatrics Palliative Care Podcast. We’ve got to do that. But that was. And so we put it together. Alexis 14:08 Yeah.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Diane: Fantastic.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Training Hospitalists in Negotiations to Address Conflicts with Older Adults around Their Social Needs. Geriatrics. December 2020. Alex: We are delighted to welcome back Lee Lindquist, who’s a geriatrician and chief of geriatrics at Northwestern. Journal of Patient Experience. Lee: Thank you so much for having me.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Susan Block had reached out to me and asked if I could contribute something specifically on the experience during the peak months in New York City and COVID Pandemic in 2020. And then to see her show up in our hospice unit in April of 2020, it just completely broke my heart. And it was the first time I recognized someone.

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