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Eric and I are joined today on this podcast by Anne Kelly palliative caresocialworker to discuss these issues with Liz. Alex: And joining us as she has many times, Anne Kelly is a socialworker 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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.” They want to know how quickly we can have a goals-of-care conversation with the patient. Do you have a doctor and a socialworker that can work on, for instance, Medicaid eligibility. I had my standard two times a week nursing, one time a week socialworker, once a month chaplain, once every other month music therapist.
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To learn more about Frank’s teaching and philosophy on end-of-lifecare, read his book The Five Invitations This episode of the GeriPal Podcast is sponsored by UCSF’s Division of Palliative Medicine , an amazing group doing world-class palliative care. This is Eric Widera. Alex 00:53 This is Alex Smith.
Alex: Also returning Rebecca Sudore, who is professor of medicine at the UCSF in the division of geriatrics, and is a geriatric and palliative care doctor. I was on service and I had a geriatrics fellow and a palliative care fellow. So I got the white board and I wrote advance care planning. Rebecca: Yeah.
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You said something about your research in this area this morning pertaining to views of that term, end of life or end-of-lifecare. ” Or for a socialworker, “Where are we going to discharge them to?” Alex: Well, let me just ask one more, sticking with this, Karen. Karen: Sure.
For example, bachelor’s degrees for socialworkers. Another thing that we were focused on within goal six was adding a number of measures to Care Compare to new measures such as palliative care and end of lifecare, our resident care plans being implemented because that’s an important thing.
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