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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

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[link] Toronto Star Feature [link] CityNews Toronto Feature [link] Psychosocial Interventions at PEACH In addition to medical care, PEACH also runs two key psychosocial interventions for our clients: PEACH Grief Circles Structured spaces for workers in the homelessness sector to process grief. CME This episode is not CME eligible.

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

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Alex Smith Links Link to the McGill National Grand Rounds Series on Palliative Care , Michael Kearney as initial presenter, and registration for future events. 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. Ive got a name. Canadians are welcoming.

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

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Abhilash Desai, MD , geriatric psychiatrist, adjunct associate professor in the department of psychiatry at University of Washington School of Medicine, and poet! She directs UCSF MERI’s patient, family, and clinician support with classes and consultation on resiliency, well-being, and grief. Anne, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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Between Two Urns: Undertaker Thomas Lynch

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But I must say that grief has a way of coming round and round and round again. Eric 07:41 You know, another thing I found very interesting, having written papers about grief and thought a lot about it, but agree that there’s. If I take advantage of people in their grief, that gets around pretty quick. We are without.

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

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It was like kind of a co op with this common space that different groups could rent for events and meetings and things like that. We have recently, for our larger events, and even not as large events, we have people send us their stories. Alex 32:22 Geriatrics Palliative Care Podcast. And that works really well.

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The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks

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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. Usually events open up some insight into the person themselves as they’re describing the suffering.

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

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Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. 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.

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