GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Our listeners will be familiar with Anne Kelly, who’s a social worker at the San Francisco VA, on the palliative care service, who wrote a JAMA piece of my mind title The Last Visit. Since my mom died in 2020 until I wrote this piece in the fall of last year, I had not ever expected or intended to write about my experience.

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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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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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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 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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JULY 6, 2023

Alex: And we are delight to welcome Lindsey Yourman, who is a geriatrician, she’s a longtime friend and mentee, and is now a peer and is a key component of the ePrognosis working group and helped originate the ideas that led to ePrognosis and she’s now San Diego County’s Chief Geriatrics Officer. Welcome to GeriPal, Lindsey.

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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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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Alex 01:56 And returning guest, Vicki Jackson, who’s a palliative care doc, chief of the Division of Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine at MGH , professor at Harvard Medical School, and co director of the Harvard Medical School center for Palliative Care. But what about the social workers and the chaplains?

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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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