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Hospice of Washington County, Gilchrist Pen Affiliation Agreement

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Post-affiliation, the combined hospice will offer hospice, geriatric and palliative care, as well as pediatric services, grief care, dementia support, music therapy, veterans’ program and culturally specific initiatives. About 25,271 Medicare decedents in 2021 elected the hospice benefit, according to the U.S.

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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. This is Eric Widera. Judy: Thank you.

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

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Summary Transcript CME Summary As far as weve come in the 50 years since Balfour Mount and Sue Britton opened the first palliative care at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Quebec, have we lost something along the way? In todays podcast we welcome some of the early pioneers in palliative care to talk about the roots of palliative care. by Kearney.

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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. See if you can pick out the moment.

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Comics and Humor in Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nathan Gray

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Heck, I’m not even sure to call it a podcast, as I think to get the most out of it you should watch it on YouTube. Why, because today we have Nathan Gray joining us. Nathan is a Palliative Care doctor and an assistant professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. His work has been published in places like the L.A. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Nathan.

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Prolonged Grief Disorder: Holly Prigerson

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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.

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PC for Patients with Substance Use Disorder: Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers

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And it’s supposedly also about his grief with the loss of his father after a long illness. Alex 00:15 We are delighted to welcome back Janet Ho, who is a palliative care doc and addiction medicine doc and associate professor at UCSF. Janet, welcome back to the GeriPal Podcast. Janet 00:26 Thank you so much. S a ch, welcome to GeriPal.