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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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

The ability to appreciate, recognize, and engage with music is preserved even until late stages of dementia, and Theresa is examining how music can be useful from the time of diagnosis, not only for the person with dementia, but their caregivers. And Theresa studies music for people with dementia and their caregivers.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

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). Alex: Yeah, two psychologists talking about psychological issues in palliative care and geriatrics. Big randomized control study that came out. David: Yeah.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Of note: these lessons apply to geriatrics, primary care, hospital medicine, critical care, cancer care, etc, etc. social worker, chaplain), everyone should be able to ask a question or two about spiritual concerns, social concerns, or physical concerns. I think geriatrics very proud of interprofessional care.

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Home Care Pulse

MAY 16, 2023

Caregivers have at least three years of tenure, and nearly one out of four caregivers have worked with a long-term companion for at least five years. So we’re coming to really validate all the things that the caregivers are gonna be providing, not a clinical assessment. Today, almost half of a long-term companion’s.

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GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

This hypothesis Played itself out in an interesting way, Ali John 11:15 Thinking about total pain and addressing physical, emotional, social, and spiritual issues. We had an interdisciplinary team of physicians, nurses, social workers, and chaplains supporting patients through their psychedelic journey. Ali John 11:34 Yep.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

” In each bi-weekly episode, he interviews Alzheimer’s disease experts about research advances and caregiver strategies. They need social workers like I have. And I think that is a sign that geriatrics has a really important role in the future of dementia care. They need more people working with them.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

I’d hazard that maybe half the patients I care for at the intersection of geriatrics and palliative care fall in the gray zone. Alex: And a voice that will be very familiar to our listeners, a dynamic and enthusiastic social worker in palliative care at the San Francisco VA, Anne Kelly. Anne Kelly: Hi there. Nice to be here.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary The proportion of people living with dementia who identify as Black/African Americans is on the rise , and so too are the proportion of caregivers who identify as Black/African American. Why a focus on Black/African American caregivers and people with dementia? We talk in particular about: Terminology.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

I love this survey because it is mostly of physicians, which physicians are doing the lion’s share of the palliative care work here, but what you say you’re comfortable doing for depression care might not dovetail with what a psychologist or social worker would do in the context of depression care. We have a social worker.”

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

It used to also be a social worker and myself who would actually go to clinic and spend some time up there. Said social worker has left since then, so it’s now just me. They’re confused a lot of the time, and so we’re doing a ton of caregiver support. Sarah 06:23 It’s just me.

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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. There’s this beauty that’s there, whether we’re doing geriatrics, infectious disease, palliative care. Anne: Hi, guys.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

Matt: So my entry with this handle on social media, unlike Julie, this was more of a deliberate effort and it was an effort born from common themes I would see at the bedside. For GeriPal, it’s really to bring geriatrics and palliative care together. laughter] Eric: Well. I wonder if you’ve had a similar sort of experience.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

And Rachel Rush, who is a pediatric social. A palliative care social worker now at Colorado. We are really trying to be mindful of the breadth of experience people bring, you know, to be sure that we have chaplains telling stories, social workers, physicians, apps, et cetera. We’re kind of a Covid baby.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

We welcome all professions, including but not limited to physicians, chaplains, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, case managers, administrators, and pharmacists. It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions. For inquiries or to apply, please contact gayle.kojimoto@ucsf.edu. But our study had some limitations.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

There is a lot of literature suggesting that standard transplant care doesn’t really meet the needs of these patients and their caregivers. Then we looked also a little bit long-term at three and six months, and we also looked at caregiver outcomes. Eric: Well, let’s talk about caregivers. Eric: Okay. Tom: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

For example, bachelor’s degrees for social workers. But I’m going to zoom out and say that I think the big solution to nursing homes is the big solution to a lot of our societal problems, which is valuing caregivers across the board. I think teamwork and effective leadership are absolutely critical. Eric: Excellent.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

2021 Association of Hospice Profit Status With Family Caregivers’ Reported Care Experiences. It might be complexity, it might be acuity, it might be the psychosocial situation or social determinants of health. Eric: Lack of a caregiver. Joseph: Lack of the caregiver. JAMA Health Forum. And yet they’re dying.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Krista Harrison found , to her surprise, that caregivers of people with dementia who died rated hospice as well as similar patients without dementia who died on hospice. She’s Professor and Vice Chair for Research at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine. Melissa: Thank you.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The wisdom and experiences of hospice caregivers (who are often underpaid and undervalued). Alex 00:56 Today we are delighted to welcome Wendy MacNaughton, who is a trained as a social worker and is an author and illustrator and author of how to say Goodbye, a book of visual journalism. This is Eric Widera. She has a TED talk.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

And the anger was… I was the one delivering the bad news, but the anger was very much directed at a social worker on our service who’s female. The caregiver apologized. But sometimes, like with that patient with laryngeal cancer I just mentioned, I partnered up and did joint visits with my social worker with him.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

We are going to tackle this question and so many more about coping on this week’s podcast with Dani Chammas , a recurring GeriPal guest, psychiatrist, and palliative care doc at UCSF, and Amanda Moment , a Palliative Care Social Worker at Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center. Dani, welcome back to GeriPal. This is complicated.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

It was started by a social worker who really saw some gaps in care with those at end-of-life, particularly those with chronic long-term illness, having important conversations. What the social workers are … Eric: Yeah. Beth: From a hospice standpoint, we obviously have the nursing support, social work chaplaincy.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

But luckily, Anne Kelly, our social worker, was in the room with me and said the magic thing that just was the right thing to say. And this caregiver saying, “I don’t know how much longer I can do this. I was just thinking back to yesterday, we were in a family meeting. Somebody asked the question.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

We invited her back along with Alaine to talk about their work around negotiation training, including their work on NegotiAge , an online, AI based training intervention designed to teach negotiation skills to caregivers. . Training Hospitalists in Negotiations to Address Conflicts with Older Adults around Their Social Needs.

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GeriPal

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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

How it works is that all patients will have access or encounters with the specialty trained clinician, a psychologist, a social worker, a palliative care clinician. You got palliative care psychologists and social workers and pharmacists and MP’s and physicians and nurses, you know, the chaplains.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

Just supporting each other too, because how many people are leaving healthcare, but especially leaving this geriatric medicine post-acute facet because they get frustrated or they get fearful of, of these kind of situations. If you’re really a, a healthcare worker is really struggling. Speaker 2 ( 20:32 ): Yeah, absolutely.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

First, we have James Deardorff, who’s a geriatrician and assistant professor at UCSF in the division of Geriatrics. And I’m just so grateful that we have our interdisciplinary team, including a social worker and spiritual care provider, to help do a lot of that support for patients and families. Good to be here.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. There’s a book called The 36-hour day for dementia caregivers. They can be a- Diane: Social worker. Malaz: I love it.

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