GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. And importantly, our social worker, Aunt Kelly, actually does a search and I would say 75% of the time she finds somebody maybe even higher than that, finds somebody who’s actually a surrogate.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

We start each podcast with a song in part to shift the frame, taking people out of their academic selves and into a more informal conversation. What’s your favorite book? There’s a small book called Music and Creativity in Healthcare Settings written by Hilary Moss. She has a new book coming out, but keep going.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

We must often deliver complex medical information that carries heavy emotional weight in pressured settings to individuals with varying cultural backgrounds, values, and beliefs. Any one of our podcasts with Bob Arnold, including this one on the language of serious illness or this one on books, to become a better mentor.

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Home Care Pulse

MAY 16, 2023

So before we became accredited by, with the Joint Commission in their home care program, we were already receiving referrals from local physicians, nurses, social workers, discharge planners, at a number of different healthcare systems in the area. This is such valuable information for our audience. A fascinating discussion.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

We discuss the principles of harm reduction, social determinants of health, and trauma informed care. By the time he got into us, the tumor grew, he had experienced, he was experiencing significant pain and so trauma, informed care and building a relationship with him was such a big part of the care. On bias and trauma as you.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

We’ve invited: Julie McFadden (aka Hospice Nurse Julie ): Julie is a social media superstar, with 1.5 She covers topics on death, dying, and hospice from a hospice nurse perspective, and she also has a book coming out called “ Nothing to Fear: Demystifying Death to Live More Fully ,” which is now available for pre-order.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

– Anticipatory corpse book mentioned several times on the podcast. One bump is just the classic pitfalls we often talk about in serious illness communication: being very jargony, very information focused, and just providing information. And when I read that book my intern year, it possessed me. All the time. ;).

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Her first publication, a children’s book entitled Daniel’s World: A Book About Children with Disabilities , is the closest to her heart. That CNA, that nurse, that social worker, that chaplain feels supported in the field by this robust tool.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

They’re really great, the palliative care social worker and chaplain. We need that information. This information is so vital. Hospitals should routinely collect functional information in the same way. SNFs should routinely collect functional information the same way. Has this patient been out of bed?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

To me, that feels hard because I guess my inclination is that I want communication to be fixable, and there’s so much medical information and there’s a lot of reasons for families to feel like they’re struggling to understand. What was it, 5%? Eric: 2% of the time. Alex: 2% of the time. Oh, did I just say that?”

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GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

We talk about why it’s so hard with Abby Rosenberg (chief of PC at DFCI and Boston Childrens), Nick Purol (clinical social worker at DFCI and Boston Childrens), Daniel Eison (pediatric PC doc and co-host of PediPal). But when I have, I find that they’re often some of the hardest patients to care for. Abby: Thank you. Happy to be here.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In his book The Hour of our Death Philip Aries described a long evolution in western civilization of cultural attitudes towards dying. More recently Sharon Kaufman ‘s book And a Time to Die described the ways in which physicians, nurses, hospital systems, and payment mechanisms influenced the hour and manner of patient’s deaths.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The family worked with the social worker to explore alternative options, such as increasing home care support. While transparency is essential for building trust, there are times when withholding or sugarcoating information may be deemed more compassionate or beneficial.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

But we can’t lose sight of the system level, the x individual outside of the individual, the system level factors that inform our day to day workplace experience. So when we were working on this book, intentionally interprofessional, we found such strong evidence that the team itself, simply being in a team, is protective.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Ideally, there’ll be a place in the chart that actually captures the name of that person and their contact information. So a lot of the skills that are used in advance care planning are the same kind of skills you would use in a context where you were communicating information or prognosis or doing an informed consent discussion.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

And welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Ira Byock, who is a author and well-known, has written several books about hospice, inspired many to go into the field, and is the founder of- Ira: The Institute for Human- Alex: The Institute for Human Caring. What is the role of the physicians, the nurses, the social workers in hospice?

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

These realizations led Barbara to sit down and write, gone from my site, the little blue book that has changed the hospice industry. We love this book, especially me, I like to show off my copy. Each person seemed to be going through the stages of death in almost the same manner, and most families came to her with similar questions.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

So take a listen and if you are interested in learning more, check out these wonderful links: Harvey’s latest book is called, Dignity in Care: The Human Side of Medicine Intensive Caring: Reminding Patients They Matter Michael J. And who’s a latest book is Dignity and Care: The Human Side of Medicine. Harvey: I feel welcome.

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Seasons Hospice

AUGUST 12, 2024

The care team, which typically includes nurses, physicians, social workers, and chaplains, works closely with the patient and their family to develop a care plan that addresses their medical, emotional, and spiritual needs. Provide them with information on how to help and what to expect as the illness progresses.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Please read full disclosur e for more information. For instance, if you have a patient with a lot of family “drama,” you might want to get the social worker involved so you can focus on providing nursing care while the social worker focuses on social issues. Sound familiar? Know the Visit Type.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Her most recent book is Elderhood. He made it very clear that he called me by looking my number up in the phone book. And it’s not the same, but it does provide information. And it bothers me how the nurses are there, the physical therapists are there, some of the social workers are there. Eric 46:49 Yeah.

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Living With Hospice

AUGUST 26, 2020

I'm not a social worker. And it's available for clergy and deacons and elders from your church or books and tapes and books on tape and podcasts and prayer groups and prayer chains, musicians, millions of other ways to help your caregiver friend, attend to these needs these spiritual needs these emotional needs.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome to the podcast Alaine Murawski…Social worker and researcher, research study coordinator at Northwestern. One of my co-authors, Alaine Murawski, who’s a social worker, she has a lot of the similar experiences if you want to talk about it from a social worker perspective.

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Living With Hospice

JANUARY 30, 2021

I'm not a social worker. So the information I share in this podcast is from my own experience with hospice and end of life journeys in general. And of course, we've been bombarded by movies and books and all sorts of things. If you have a fear of death or dying and you want more information, please drop us a line.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

That was the lesson I learned from reading a new book edited by Matt Loscalzo along with Marshall Forstein called “ Loss and Grief: Personal Stories of Doctors and Other Healthcare Professionals ”. Matt, tell me about the book that you just published. ” And we began this edited version of this book. Alex: Great choice.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

There’s a book called The 36-hour day for dementia caregivers. I could walk down the hall and get information. And these care navigator, they can be community health worker with just 12 years of education. They can be a- Diane: Social worker. Malaz: Social worker, anybody.

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The Nurse Break

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Sorting out a nugget of information from waffle, and knowing how to tease out more helpful details, is also a good quality. I booked into whatever hotel I could afford, and enjoyed early nights and the peace and quiet. Wearing full PPE in summer. What has your career path in community health looked like?

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

At one end of the spectrum you can provide decision makers with information that doesn’t work very well in most contexts. I mean, Cass Sunstein and Dick Thauer wrote a book entitled nudge. We didn’t make them do anything with that information, just document it. Eric 11:31 Behavioral interventions or.

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