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2024 AAHPM Visionary Elizabeth Hart, MD

AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

Elizabeth Hart, MD Androscoggin Home Healthcare + Hospice AAHPM reached out to the 2024 Visionaries to gain insight into what motivated them to pursue leadership positions and what they find more fulfilling in their experiences. The nurses, aides, chaplains and social workers on our team teach me daily.

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How Palliative Care Is Changing in Today’s Health Care Environment

Hospice News

However, he also emphasized the challenge of deploying skilled professionals to the home-based arena, where he said the best providers typically have combined skills in primary care, palliative care and even geriatrics. “We She also underscored workforce shortages.

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

GeriPal

David Bekelman conducted a RCT of a nurse and social worker telephone intervention (ADAPT intervention) for people with heart failure and lung disease (COPD or ILD). ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. David: Yeah.

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Meet Scott, who cares for his older sister

Chicago Caregiving

Back home, he reached out to DuPage County, found local nonprofit Metropolitan Family Services , and also researched geriatric care management services in his sister’s city. Having an independent social worker do an assessment for stress helped make it real. It’s a crisis for them day in and day out,” he says.

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Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

GeriPal

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. So in the VA, psychologist and a social worker and a chaplain and a doctor and a nurse are all mandated components of a palliative care team. We have a social worker.” For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu. Elissa: Right?

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. We welcome all professions, including but not limited to physicians, chaplains, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, case managers, administrators, and pharmacists. Eric: And lastly, LaVera.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

Bernie Lo discloses being an Honorarium Recipient and consultant for Takeda starting on 01/23/2024. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. They didn’t come up in geriatrics very much. And we see that too in geriatrics. Alex and Eric, both of you attend in geriatrics.

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