GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

How important is it that we dissect all of these different ways we can deliver palliative care? Either different populations, telehealth versus in person physician NP versus physician social worker. How important is it that we really drill down into how we’re delivering that palliative care syringe?

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Hospice News

JULY 22, 2022

Many come striving for change after witnessing loved ones receive poor end-of-life care or enduring bereavement without support. A death doula is a non-medical provider trained to care for a terminally ill person and their family physically, emotionally and spiritually during the process of death.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 9, 2022

Even the phrase “cultural competence” itself may be an oversimplification, according to Joseph Bleiberg, lead licensed social worker with the hospice care team at VNS Health. It’s definitely not defined as ‘cultural competence,’ because as soon as we think we know everything, then we’re toast.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

She is a guest host and she’s a palliative care social worker. Eric 00:15 And we have three guests to help us talk about trauma informed care. Mariah 03:51 I like the SAMHSA definition as sort of a guiding definition for it, and I’m happy to read it. Well, being a pretty comprehensive definition.

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Hospice News

MAY 23, 2023

The focus to date has been concentrated on three areas: mental health, palliative and end-of-life care. There are definitely just basic physiological cardiac risks. In recent years, research into the potential medical uses of psychedelics and ketamine has abounded. Clinical psychedelics may become a $6.85

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Hospice News

JULY 1, 2022

Patients will receive 24/7 care at the six-bed hospice facility, which features private patient rooms, a living room space, kitchen, large dining area, office area and a serenity garden. In line with national trends, the area’s aging population is projected to grow and raise demand for end-of-life care and related services.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Eric and I are joined today on this podcast by Anne Kelly palliative care social worker to discuss these issues with Liz. Alex: And joining us as she has many times, Anne Kelly is a social worker at the San Francisco VA. Welcome, Liz. Liz: Thanks. I’m really excited to be here. Anne, welcome back. Liz: Right.

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Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

I started advocating pretty early on that I thought it would be really beneficial to form a separate, dedicated team of nurses, physicians, social workers and chaplains to take part in this care. We are in the process of adding a massage therapist who specializes in pediatric end-of-life care.

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NHPCO

JUNE 21, 2023

The choice for end-of-life care is deeply personal and should be made by patients, in consultation with loved ones and medical personnel, with a thorough understanding of the prognosis, the various care options available, and the implications of each of those options.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

How did you get interested in palliative care research and the stuff that you’re doing right now? I was always critical care bound since medical school. But definitely always had the bug to be the one to jump into the family meetings in the ICU, lead them. You work with who’s there and they, they deliver care.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

And people are getting life sentences. They’re going to get older, they’re going to struggle with geriatric conditions, and they’re going to need palliative services and eventually end-of-life care. We have nurses who have extra training in palliative care. We have a psychiatrist.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Hospice News sat down with McGlory to discuss the factors that led her to pivot her career toward end-of-life care, what she designed Guaranteed to achieve, and her strategies for making that happen. Have you previously worked in health care or hospice before? Definitely. Guaranteed Founder Jessica McGlory.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

I feel like we talked about this before, so I don’t want to sound like a broken record, but I maybe will sound like a broken record to get back to what is the definition of advance care planning? I think I’m heartened by the fact that over the last decade or so, the definition of advance care planning has evolved.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

So I think there’s definitely overlap with that, but I think helping patients cope, make priorities, think through their goals and values early and along the illness course does facilitate and enable better end of life decision making, including advanced care planning.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

In this PONDER-ICU trial, we didn’t rely on palliative care specialists; we engaged bedside clinicians to have ICU communication and adhere to guidelines. We have our social workers and our psychologists and we know how to manage these symptoms. They’re because of the treatment. Corita: They absolutely did.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

You’d imagine that as a seasoned palliative care doc, I’d have a pretty good definition by now of what “maintaining dignity” or “loss of dignity” means, but you’d be sadly wrong. Well that all changes today as we’ve invited the world’s foremost expert in dignity at the end of life, Dr. Here’s a little bit.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

While the creative process is what truly matters, we think that the outcome is guaranteed to be awesome and definitely worth sharing. 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.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, basically, with a stepped care model, the goal is to tailor care delivery to the patient’s needs while at the same time utilizing less clinician resources. 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.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

I’m the senior nurse educator at H C P, Speaker 1 ( 00:25 ): And you’re listening to Vision, the podcast for leaders and forward thinkers in the care industry. Today we’ll be discussing the importance of unifying the care continuum for end of life care. Speaker 3 ( 00:38 ): Hi, glad to be here.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2022

The reintroduced [Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act (PCHETA )] has seen a long haul, but it’s still rolling through the process and this keeps it in front of our legislators. PCHETA will really help us to grow, improve and sustain the hospice and palliative care workforce long-term.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

And I think what, you know, for when I was there, the asian american veterans, it definitely came up during our visits. Even when I was doing my geriatrician life history, they started talking. Actually, we had to pull it up yesterday that hate crimes actually did spike during 2021, 2022, definitely for Asians.

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

This really is patients with serious chronic life limiting illness who are hospitalized. Eric: How’d you define serious chronic life limiting? Bob: We used a set of nine conditions that have been used by the Dartmouth Atlas Project to study end of life care. I think you had to be age over 55.

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