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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.
Common Causes of the Seniors’ Increased Anxiety America Association for Geriatric Psychiatry shows that 10-20% of older adults suffer from anxiety, which can adversely affect their lifestyle. However, there are various ways to help cope with the condition.
-Alex End Well Talk [link] Resources on the PEACH Program Program Review Paper A recent publication in Longwoods Healthcare Quarterly reviewing the PEACH model. I always knew that I wanted to get into healthcare, to use healthcare as a springboard for social change in our communities. Have you thought about that?
Holly Prigerson recalls the moments in which she started investigating prolonged grief disorder. She recalls being “a social scientist [Holly] in room full of psychiatrists,” who recognized a diagnostic gap in people experiencing profound and potentially harmful grief far after the death of a loved one. Summary Transcript Summary.
Does every institution need to get a community advisory board to tailor their rural tele-palliative care initiative (or geriatrics intervention) to the local communities served? Like, would you include the doctors that I work with, healthcare providers where I live in Marin? We are going to have healthcare utilization data as well.
Because I don’t think we think about that so much in palliative care, but we do in geriatrics. I’m particularly interested in, have you told people that it’s probably safer for them to stop driving and seen the grief and loss that they experience when they hear that? Is it you, Emmy? Emmy: It is. Is this our role?
You’re talking about a paradigm shift in healthcare. 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. That’s what’s missing right now in our healthcare system. And it was just the opposite for me. Eric 24:44 Why is that?
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And it’s supposedly also about his grief with the loss of his father after a long illness. The post PC for Patients with Substance Use Disorder: Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) .
I feel like, you know, even before the pandemic, certainly during the pandemic, we talk a lot about the grit and the resilience of healthcare and healthcare workers and, you know, the amazing drive that they have and the amazing ability that they have to connect with people. Alex 32:22 Geriatrics Palliative Care Podcast.
Alex: We are honored to welcome Dr. Rajagopal, who goes by Raj, who is the author of Walk with the Weary: Lessons in Humanity in Healthcare. The reasons are tied to the basically poor healthcare in low and middle income countries. We know that a department of healthcare cannot give it. Healthcare industry cannot do it.
These hick pick codes are available to any chaplain in a healthcare system. And I told her I quote LaVera every year when I teach the geriatrics fellows, the palliative care fellows, I would love for you to tell the story that I quote because you experienced it. It’s now available. Eric: So, let me ask this then.
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. It was built in 1955, so it wasn’t designed for a geriatric population.
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Complicated grief? Alex: And we have Hillary Lum, who is a geriatrics and palliative care researcher at the University of Colorado. The post Group ACP and Equity: Sarah Nouri, Hillary Lum, LJ Van Scoy appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Did they have PTSD?
I think this is actually bread and butter geriatrics. And then there’s this other time, and this gets to the geriatric patients, where you’re adapting to change and loss and then it’s a new normal that you’re trying to adapt to. And so, that’s what we learned from them. This is a blind spot for me.
Healthcare, just the way healthcare is structured, that’s not something that’s feasible unless there’s a specific symptom management need that allows for more care, but just to provide simple care doesn’t exist. There’s a consistency of understanding and approach that I think is helpful.
And whether it be around thinking about working with patients about grief or their past or current substance abuse, when I think about the things that I struggle with the most even after a decade and a half in this field, like you said, it’s the psychosocial stuff. I’ve felt that way for 20 years. I don’t believe in it.
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.
Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome Meredith Green e , a friend, a geriatrician, researcher, associate professor at Indiana University, who was previously with us at UCSF in our division of geriatrics. Eric 00:50 So we’re going to be talking about HIV and geriatrics and palliative care. But to kind of ease us into it.
You’d imagine though that our professional expertise and experiences in helping patients and families cope with loss and grief would be helpful in managing our own personal losses. A great website for dealing with loss and grief : refugeingrief.com. You have healthcare providers telling stories about loss.
And so all of us in the healthcare profession, in in the he caring profession, I like, that’s my new thing, health, right? We can guide them to have a more total experience without the denial that that goes through our healthcare system. And what I want people to understand is that everybody dies. So Oliver, I like this.
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Alex 00:54 And Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who’s a social behavioral scientist and a fellow in the T32 Research Fellowship at the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. At a high level to sort of step in and start, you know, tinkering with workflows that, you know, are kind of as healthcare is a giant machine in primary care. Is that right?
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Everything from normative reactions like exist anticipatory grief to comorted psychiatric illness like depression, anxiety, ptsd, which we know is really prevalent in our populations, out to sort of patients with severe psychiatric comorbidities which we probably drop the ball on more. We’re pretty familiar with that in palliative care.
Among us healthcare providers who care for the elderly, I think that is a good thing to protect ourselves and our patients. Alex 33:19 I’m giving my co some grief. The post COVID Updates: A Podcast with Peter Chin-Hong and Lona Mody appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.
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