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The Roots of Palliative Care: Michael Kearney, Sue Britton, and Justin Sanders

GeriPal

First we have Michael Kearney, who’s a palliative and hospice doctor at the Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara and author of several books. His latest book is called Becoming Forest A Story of Deep Belonging, and he’s the founder of the Becoming Forest Project. by Kearney. I promise its short. Canadians are welcoming.

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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

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Summary Transcript Summary. In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team social worker. But are we really taking full advantage of ALL social workers have to offer our field? by: Anne Kelly, LCSW, APHSW-C. Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Barbara: Yay.

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Hospice Nurse, Educator Seeks to Change National Conversation About Death

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It also publishes a podcast and has produced a childrens book designed to help kids better understand death and dying. I don’t want to see in my feed that everyone dies. So we wrote a children’s book called Everyone Dies. Matzo has been a registered nurse for 47 years and holds a Ph.D in gerontology.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

He is also author of the book, “ Walk with the Weary: Lessons in Humanity in Health Care ,” and was featured in this Atlantic article. Rajagopal (goes by “Raj”), one of the pioneers of palliative care in India. Raj is an anesthesiologist turned palliative care doctor. Social pain and loneliness. Community-based palliative care networks .

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Comics and Humor in Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nathan Gray

GeriPal

However if you want to take a deeper dive, check out his website “ The Ink Vessel ” or his amazing twitter feed which has a lot of his work in it. Heck, I’m not even sure to call it a podcast, as I think to get the most out of it you should watch it on YouTube. Why, because today we have Nathan Gray joining us. Transcript. This is Alex Smith.

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Artificial Intelligence: Charlotta Lindvall, Matt DeCamp, Sei Lee

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Summary Transcript Summary Artificial Intelligence, or AI, has tremendous potential. We talk on this podcast about potential uses of AI in geriatrics and palliative care with natural language processing guru Charlotta Lindvall from DFCI, bioethicists and internist Matt DeCamp from University of Colorado, and prognosis wizard Sei Lee from UCSF.

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Potentially Unsafe Low-evidence Treatments: Adam Marks, Laura Taylor, & Jill Schneiderhan

GeriPal

Daneila Lamas wrote about this issue in the New York Times this week -after we recorded – in her story, a family requested an herbal infusion for their dying mother via feeding tube. For more, Laura suggests a book titled, How to Talk to a Science Denier. Key ingredients are both potentially unsafe and low evidence.

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