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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

Afterwards, we chat with the prison’s chaplain, Keith Knauf. Eric: So I’m excited because we’re going to be interviewing Michele, but we’re also going to be interviewing others, including inmate volunteers here, chaplains. It was built in 1955, so it wasn’t designed for a geriatric population. Eric: Yeah.

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

GeriPal

On the other hand, all of our guests agree that chaplains are often the most vulnerable to being cut from hospital and health system budgets. We welcome all professions, including but not limited to physicians, chaplains, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, case managers, administrators, and pharmacists. Karen: Thank you.

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The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks

GeriPal

Though his narrow definition of suffering as injured or threatened personhood has been critiqued , the central concept was a motivating force for many of us to enter the fields of geriatrics and palliative care, Eric and I included. Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Pain Manag Nurs.

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

GeriPal

I think that was from a point of view of how do you cope with sadness and grief, is that you find a funny bone somewhere and you have. We’ve got social workers, we’ve got chaplains, we got nurses who can do the human piece. What should we do as nurses, as physicians, as social workers, as chaplains? What do we do?

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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

GeriPal

Abhilash Desai, MD , geriatric psychiatrist, adjunct associate professor in the department of psychiatry at University of Washington School of Medicine, and poet! Judy Long, MDiv, BCC , palliative care chaplain and educator at UCSF and caregiver. Judy Long, MDiv, BCC , palliative care chaplain and educator at UCSF and caregiver.

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Well-being and Resilience: a Podcast with Jane Thomas, Naomi Saks, Ishwaria Subbiah

GeriPal

Alex 01:01 And we’re delighted to welcome back to the podcast Naomi Saks, who is a palliative care chaplain, assistant professor in the D ivision of P alliative M edicine at UCSF and D irector of I ndividual and C ollective W ell-being for the H ospice and P alliative M edicine f ellowship at UCSF. Ishwaria, welcome to GeriPal.

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2024 AAHPM Visionary Elizabeth Hart, MD

AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

Years later, when I was a geriatric fellow, he gave me another gift by asking me to review James Hallenbeck’s remarkable book Palliative Care Perspectives for the Journal of Palliative Medicine. The nurses, aides, chaplains and social workers on our team teach me daily. I look to them all as my guides.

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