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Patient, Staff Satisfaction Biggest ROIs of Trauma-Informed Hospice Care

Hospice News

This is according to Amber Ash, pediatric hospice and palliative care social worker at Ohio-based Hospice of the Western Reserve. More than half of women and roughly 60% of men reported experiencing at least one traumatic event in their lifetime in a National Comorbidity Study (NCS).

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How Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Built an Award-Winning Palliative Program

Hospice News

Wu added that with only 10 members, the palliative care team is “small but mighty” and includes physicians, a nurse practitioner, a nurse social worker, a pharmacist, a chaplain and an administrator. Wu said the program, which continually changes, addresses wellness as it relates to systems effectiveness, the team and the individual.

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The Caregiver’s Journey

Chicago Caregiving

Step One Learn about what’s going on Start with a clear understanding of your loved one’s medical condition and care team, says Julie Fohrman, a gerontologist who founded North Shore Geriatric Care Management in Lake Forest. Employers — yours or your loved one’s — may offer caregiver support, such as access to social workers.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

Alex: And we are delight to welcome Lindsey Yourman, who is a geriatrician, she’s a longtime friend and mentee, and is now a peer and is a key component of the ePrognosis working group and helped originate the ideas that led to ePrognosis and she’s now San Diego County’s Chief Geriatrics Officer. Welcome to GeriPal, Lindsey.

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

GeriPal

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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Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh

GeriPal

That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. They’re really great, the palliative care social worker and chaplain. It’s these activities that you’re talking about, these goals, these trips, these events, these meaningful activities.

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Images of the Dying: A Podcast with Wendy MacNaughton, Lingsheng Li, and Frank Ostaseski

GeriPal

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. This is Eric Widera. Alex 00:53 This is Alex Smith. Eric 00:54 And Alex, who do we have with us today? She has a TED talk. Great to be here.

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