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

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She retrained as a social worker, and it was while she was a social worker that she began to formulate her ideas for better kind of end of life care, which was to become hospice care, modern hospice care. And I’m sad to say it, but I don’t think doctors are gonna listen to a social worker.

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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. It’s been quite a ride.

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

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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. It was built in 1955, so it wasn’t designed for a geriatric population. We have medical social workers who support the patients.

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

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But luckily, Anne Kelly, our social worker, was in the room with me and said the magic thing that just was the right thing to say. Alex: Could you walk us through this one, stages of grief in era of immunotherapy? And it seemed like we had created a new stage of grief. Somebody asked the question. I had one ready.

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Storytelling in Medicine: A Podcast with Liz Salmi, Anne Kelly, and Preeti Malani

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Our listeners will be familiar with Anne Kelly, who’s a social worker at the San Francisco VA, on the palliative care service, who wrote a JAMA piece of my mind title The Last Visit. As I went through my grief process, journaling and writing was not something I did. Eric: Alex, we got a full house today. Anne: Hi, guys.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

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We have 13 social workers, many more social workers than doctors. The number of people who go into depression in the pathological grief is not reported. Grief and depression do not show up on MRI scans. Rajagopal appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

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We welcome all professions, including but not limited to physicians, chaplains, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, case managers, administrators, and pharmacists. And it might include spiritual needs such as grief, despair, anger, et cetera, as well as resources that they have to bring to bear.

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