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In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team socialworker. But are we really taking full advantage of ALL socialworkers have to offer our field? Summary Transcript Summary. by: Anne Kelly, LCSW, APHSW-C. Welcome back, Anne.
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We welcome all professions, including but not limited to physicians, chaplains, socialworkers, nurses, nurse practitioners, case managers, administrators, and pharmacists. It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions. For inquiries or to apply, please contact gayle.kojimoto@ucsf.edu. I’m going to start off with Lexy.
I’d hazard that maybe half the patients I care for at the intersection of geriatrics and palliative care fall in the gray zone. Alex: And a voice that will be very familiar to our listeners, a dynamic and enthusiastic socialworker in palliative care at the San Francisco VA, Anne Kelly. Welcome back, Lynn. Lynn: Thank you.
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It used to also be a socialworker and myself who would actually go to clinic and spend some time up there. Said socialworker has left since then, so it’s now just me. Eric 34:23 Yeah, I just learned challenges of when discharging people to hospice on. You mentioned hospice, though. But it is a.
They didn’t come up in geriatrics very much. And we see that too in geriatrics. Alex and Eric, both of you attend in geriatrics. Eric: Because those full treatment include hospice and comfort focused medications. Eric: Full treatment should also include hospice. I didn’t see very many AIDS patients.
The last case of anger that I ineptly dealt with was we were delivering in some ways good but bad news, that somebody was graduating from hospice. And the anger was… I was the one delivering the bad news, but the anger was very much directed at a socialworker on our service who’s female. Alex: Yeah. Dani: Totally.
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Eric and I are joined today on this podcast by Anne Kelly palliative care socialworker to discuss these issues with Liz. Alex: And joining us as she has many times, Anne Kelly is a socialworker at the San Francisco VA. At the end we also pay tribute to Randy Curtis, senior author on this paper and mentor to Liz.
And then, “I call hospice giving up.” But luckily, Anne Kelly, our socialworker, was in the room with me and said the magic thing that just was the right thing to say. After days of discuss my patient decided to go home on hospice with her family, no tracheostomy, no respirator. Like, oh no, I said it.
In the US, geriatrics “grew up” as an academic profession with a heavy research base. Clinical growth of geriatrics programs has lagged academic research, despite the rapid aging of the population. . You’re not hiring a bunch of socialworkers or nurses or docs to do it. Summary Transcript Summary.
Summary Transcript Summary Last week we talked about a trial of a nurse and socialworker outpatient palliative care intervention published in JAMA. He’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc/researcher in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. And you had higher rates of hospice discharges, higher rates of DNR orders.
Asking clinicians whether they had offered the option of withdrawal of life support and comfort-focused care also did not change length of stay, but did increase the discharges to hospice, odds greater than two-fold, whether it was done alone or in combination with the prognostication nudge. They’re because of the treatment.
Forget you as a doctor right now, or as socialworkers, think about you as a person meeting this person at a bar. I was in a home hospice visit, and I was with this woman in her thirties and her husband who was dying. ” And this comes up sometimes with palliative care’s consult, “What are you, hospice?”
So I was really excited to bring in a couple of co-editors who were young and hip, and at the cutting edge of palliative care now, along with my collaborators: the socialworkers, the psychiatrist, a chaplain to really make this book relevant for now. All of that really had to be revamped in terms of opioid safety. Janet: Oh.
Alex 00:15 We are delighted to welcome back Louise Aronson, who’s a geriatrician and author in the UCSF division of Geriatrics. And sure enough, yeah, we hospice and let her die at home in a couple days, very quietly. Eric 00:13 And, Alex, who do we have with us today? Her most recent book is Elderhood. They’re too busy.
For example, bachelor’s degrees for socialworkers. There are some nursing homes that also own hospices, so you may not just be selecting the nursing home that you’re going to, but potentially the hospice that you’re going to. You mentioned hospices, staffing agencies.
And we chose that in part because that will just help with the scientific question of the blinding, but there’s data in how we can use oral ketamine in patients with cancer who are in hospice, and they do have some benefit in maybe mood or anxiety that is at least shortly lived, if not lasts more than a week or so.
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We also invited Beth Klint to speak about the doula’s role within a traditional hospice organization. Alex: We’re delighted to welcome Beth Klint who is executive director of Goodwin Hospice and is joining us from the DC, Northern Virginia area along with Jane. Hospice volunteers do lots of things. Why Beth?
And Rachel Rush, who is a pediatric social. A palliative care socialworker now at Colorado. We are really trying to be mindful of the breadth of experience people bring, you know, to be sure that we have chaplains telling stories, socialworkers, physicians, apps, et cetera. We’re kind of a Covid baby.
So before we became accredited by, with the Joint Commission in their home care program, we were already receiving referrals from local physicians, nurses, socialworkers, discharge planners, at a number of different healthcare systems in the area. Brett Ringold ( 08:11 ): Yeah, absolutely.
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