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Brigham Young Geriatrician: Physician Residents Need to Learn Hospice Principles, Senior’s Specific Needs

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Physicians in training need greater exposure to geriatric training in order to better grasp the needs of older patients, including during transitions to hospice, according to Dr. Julia Lowenthal, a geriatrician from Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

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GeriPal Special: Hopes and Worries for Hospice and Palliative Care

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Eric: Martha – breaking the definition for palliative care, no longer an extra layer of support. Attendee 14: I am most hopeful that as palliative caregivers, we will continue to authentically welcome the voices of our interprofessional team members, chaplains, social workers, and so we have true interprofessional collaboration.

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HSPN Palliative Care: Fireside Chat with Contessa and Netsmart

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Nikki Davis: I’m a nurse practitioner and have been working in geriatrics and palliative care for about 21 years now. It is something that I have been involved with in a past life, but I was definitely not where I would consider myself a subject matter expert.

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

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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? I don’t know if this person was a social worker or not. Barbara: Yay.

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Prevention of Dementia: Kristine Yaffe

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Some of them, like education, definitely social determinants of health. Ann Kelly, who’s been on the podcast many times, social worker on palliative care, she’s always under a minute. Kristine: I like to tease my geriatric friends about age. I think that’s starting to change somewhat.

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Telehealth vs In-Person Palliative Care: A Podcast with Joseph Greer, Lynn Flint, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson

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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. So a pretty definitive and robust study to answer that question.

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Addressing The Range of Patient Beliefs About COVID-19

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I’m definitely seeing this a fair amount in our palliative care clinic with our seriously ill patients and their families, who remain highly motivated to stay away from COVID. Celebrate the work they are doing to do this when this happens! People have been very creative, having drive-by birthday celebrations at homes, etc.

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