GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

If you look back to some of my cartoons from late in residency, they showed just how dehumanized I felt and definitely give windows into how dehumanized I imagined my patients to be. The fact that my cartoons, thanks to social media, I’m able to sort of get them out there in front of people. Nathan: Hello, excited to be here.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Other supporters include organizations such as the Center for Medicare Advocacy, LeadingAge, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI), Respecting Choices, and the Social Work Hospice & Palliative Care Network (SWHPN).

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Hospice News

JUNE 15, 2023

We have nurses, a social worker and chaplains that donate their time. It’s definitely a much more collaborative system. After more than a decade working in hospice leadership, Alli Collins came across something she had never seen before — a financially viable, all-volunteer provider that is not Medicare-certified.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The Indiana-based palliative care provider Center for Hospice Care (CHC) is looking beyond its immediate community and has developed networks that impact palliative care on a global scale. Historic run Getting the Global Partners in Care program to this level has been quite the journey for CHC. So, these U.S.

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2023

However, researchers should pay more attention to potential risks in ongoing research, according to Ladybird Morgan, a registered nurse and social worker for the palliative care company Mettle Health and co-founder of The Humane Prison Hospice Project. “I There are definitely just basic physiological cardiac risks.

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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. It’s not a one-time thing.”.

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

This article is based on a discussion with Anthony Spano, Director of Client Development at Netsmart and Nikki Davis, Vice President of Palliative Care Programs at Contessa Health. The conversation took place on April 20, 2023, during the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference. The article below has been edited for length and clarity.

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Hospice News

JULY 14, 2023

So, it’s definitely an area of opportunity, where there’s just much more research that’s needed related to palliative care. Health equity became a large focus for McCann-Davis early on in her career. She began as a hospice volunteer as a teenager and witnessed firsthand the disparities that exist in the serious illness space.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

If enacted, the legislation would remove co-pays and patient fees for advance care planning (ACP) services, allow social workers to conduct these conversations, expand provider education about associated billing codes, and improve reporting on barriers to ACP utilization. One is removing the copay for any potential cost barrier.

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2023

It is important for older people to receive holistic care from an interprofessional team, so not just the physician but also nurses, social workers, physical therapists, and others. What are the most important things medical students or residents need to learn about treating the aging population?

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Hospice News

JUNE 29, 2023

These are usually chaplains or social workers providing bereavement services, and some hospices also have clinical psychologists or therapists as part of that team. Last year federal legislation was proposed that, if enacted, would have advanced the development of an evidence-based definition of “high-quality” bereavement care.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

Furthermore, direction to external websites is not an endorsement from AAHPM or HPNA, or the Annual Assembly. Palliative Care the Next Generation: How the Service May Grow and Evolve AccentCare , a portfolio company of private equity firm Advent International, is another example. We’ve got a very large palliative care practice,” Rodgers told PCN.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Clinical growth of geriatrics programs has lagged academic research, despite the rapid aging of the population. . Palliative care, in contrast, saw explosive growth in US hospitals. The National Palliative Care Research Center (NPCRC)and Palliative Care Research Cooperative (PCRC)were founded in part to meet this need. By diagnosis?

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Jennifer’s study is most widely known for the “kicker” – not only did it improve quality of life, palliative care was associated with a couple months longer survival. . Areej’s study is remarkably novel in that it is, to our knowledge, the first study of palliative care during curative treatment. . hint: coping). Celine Dion. Transcript.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

We start off part one by interviewing Michele DiTomas, who has been the longstanding Medical Director of the Hospice unit and currently is also the Chief Medical Executive for the Palliative care Initiative with the California Correctional Healthcare Services. I’ve known Michele a long time, since the Joint Medical Program. Michele: Yep.

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Hospice News

JULY 1, 2022

An aim of the resource center is to provide a safe place for individuals to work through difficult emotions and grief, and help survivors address the physical, mental, social and spiritual impact of losing a family member or close friend, Hill continued. The 10-bed inpatient hospice facility had been in the works for more than a decade. “In

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Don, welcome to GeriPal. Don: Thanks for having me, Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Abby Rosenberg, who’s Chief of Pediatric Palliative Care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Director of Palliative Care at Boston Children’s Hospital and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary Last week we talked about a trial of a nurse and social worker outpatient palliative care intervention published in JAMA. See also our accompanying editorial , first author Ashwin Kotwal who joins today as a co-host, and a podcast I recorded with JAMA editor Preeti Malani). Alex, who are our guests today?

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary One marker of the distance we’ve traveled in palliative care is the blossoming evidence base for the field. Ten years ago we would have been hard pressed to find 3 clinical trial abstracts submitted to the annual meeting, much less high quality randomized trials with robust measures, sample sizes, and analytics plans.

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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. Today Liz Dzeng discusses her journey towards studying this issue in detail. Welcome, Liz.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The way that the physician describes, the way that the nurse describes, or the social worker, or the chaplain, all of them are going to help you identify what’s important to that patient that you should be tracking. That’s definitely one area that needs to have a seat at the table and be more integrated in.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

J Palliat Med. J Palliat Med. J Palliat Med. The last time this happened to me I immediately went on the defensive despite years of training in serious illness communication skills. Afterwards, I thought there must be a better way. Foundations for Psychological Thinking in Palliative Care: Frame and Formulation. doi:10.1089/jpm.2021.0256

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

How do you talk to them about these terms and these definitions? Naomi 14:50 I definitely think, and I love Jane, how you keep coming back to the moment, because that’s all we have. Alex 00:15 We are delighted to welcome Jane deLima Thomas, who was a co-fellow with me back in the day in palliative care. Thanks for having me.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Melissa: It’s definitely true that that’s the incentive under nonprofit and for-profit. Melissa: There definitely is, and I think one of the things with the type of research that I do and my colleagues here do is that we’re doing large population-based data, looking nationally. Melissa is a Health Services Researcher.

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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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NHPCO

JUNE 21, 2023

By definition, statute, and regulation, hospices provide interdisciplinary care driven by patient goals. Hospice patients receive care from a team that includes doctors, nurses, hospice aides, social workers, spiritual care providers, bereavement care professionals, and trained volunteers.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

Alex 01:35 And welcoming back as guest host Anne Kelly, who’s a social worker in palliative care. 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. The results are… well… let’s just say less than perfect. Holly 01:23 Thank you.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Forget you as a doctor right now, or as social workers, think about you as a person meeting this person at a bar. . – Anticipatory corpse book mentioned several times on the podcast. – Ira Byock’s 4 things that matter most. AlexSmithMD. Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. This is Eric Widera. Josh: I do.

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1-800-HOSPICE

APRIL 11, 2023

Defining Palliative Care To appreciate the difference between palliative care and hospice , consider the definition of palliative care offered by the Center to Advance Palliative Care: 2 Palliative care is specialized medical care for people with serious illness. This fact leads many to conflate palliative care, hospice, and end-of-life care.

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Hospice News

APRIL 25, 2022

Anecdotally, as I was driving from the facility here for this session, I [received] 14 text messages of people wanting to join us; medical resources, social workers that are coming word of mouth from the people that were here today. To get one of those six months ago, I had to spend my weekend on Indeed actively looking.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

Lauren: Yeah, I think I can definitely see Joe’s point of view. Yes, my hair is definitely on fire. Eric: Alex, we have some great guests with us today. Alex: We have some wonderful guests. Holding the microphone for me is Lauren Hunt, who’s a frequent guest on GeriPal. Welcome back to GeriPal, Lauren. Eric: Great.

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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. Eric: Alex, we got a full house today. We got somebody in between us ,too. Alex: Yeah, we have three people in studio. Anne: Hi, guys.

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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

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. And one quibble with that of course is that we think the definition of capacity is that it’s task and context specific. Welcome back, Anne. Welcome back, Lynn.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

We discuss: What is considered a hate incident, how is it tracked, what do we know about changes over time The wider impact of Anti-Asian hate on older Asians, who are afraid to go out, leading to anxiety, social isolation, loneliness, decreased exercise, missed appointments and medications. Russell, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

Legalization is moving forward in several states , following the lead of Oregon and Colorado. FDA is considering approval, shifting away from Schedule I restrictions, paving the way for use in clinical practice. Potential use in palliative care , chronic pain , and for mood disorders is tantalizing. Research is exploding.

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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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