GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

Attendee 14: I am most hopeful that as palliative caregivers, we will continue to authentically welcome the voices of our interprofessional team members, chaplains, social workers, and so we have true interprofessional collaboration. Eric: Here’s our contact information. Eric: Buying GeriPal podcasts. Alex: Nursing homes.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. So in the VA, psychologist and a social worker and a chaplain and a doctor and a nurse are all mandated components of a palliative care team. We have a social worker.”

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

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 News

MAY 25, 2023

Nikki Davis: I’m a nurse practitioner and have been working in geriatrics and palliative care for about 21 years now. Anthony Spano: We are very lucky to have Nikki Davis on stage, so I wanted to just open up and give her the chance to tell us a little bit about herself. Anthony, I think this would probably be a good time.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

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 social worker in palliative care at the San Francisco VA, Anne Kelly. Welcome back, Lynn. Lynn: Thank you.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. We welcome all professions, including but not limited to physicians, chaplains, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, case managers, administrators, and pharmacists.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

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. We need that information. This information is so vital. Hospitals should routinely collect functional information in the same way.

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Chicago Caregiving

MARCH 9, 2022

TV volume wars can be daunting, but the war to lower the volume can be won with the aid of technology, says Ann Hollander, founder of Options for Aging , a geriatric care management company based in Wilmette. It reduces socialization and activity levels, which often leads to depression and other health problems including dementia.”.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

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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American In-Home Care

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Gathering information and having it readily available will provide an important measure of control and stability. Use binders to gather and store financial records, medical records, names and contact information for the attorney, investment advisor, CPA, or other professionals. Geriatric Care Specialists. Record-Keeping.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients. They didn’t come up in geriatrics very much. And we see that too in geriatrics.

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GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

We talk about why it’s so hard with Abby Rosenberg (chief of PC at DFCI and Boston Childrens), Nick Purol (clinical social worker at DFCI and Boston Childrens), Daniel Eison (pediatric PC doc and co-host of PediPal). Aren’t young adults so much harder than the geriatric patients we take care of? Abby: Thank you.

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Chicago Caregiving

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

“If they are healthy and active, you have some time, though the process still should not be put off too long , as things can change in one’s 70s, 80s, and 90s,” says Christopher D’Agostino, DO, director of geriatric services and chief medical officer at Acension Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital in Hoffman Estates.

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Chicago Caregiving

APRIL 20, 2022

The pandemic has been an especially difficult and confusing time for seniors, says Erika Hutz, DO, a specialist in geriatric and internal medicine at Swedish Medical Group. To stay on top of medical and mental health issues, Blankemeier recommends older adults: Limit social media consumption to avoid taking in too much negative information.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

We are going to tackle this question and so many more about coping on this week’s podcast with Dani Chammas , a recurring GeriPal guest, psychiatrist, and palliative care doc at UCSF, and Amanda Moment , a Palliative Care Social Worker at Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center. Dani, welcome back to GeriPal. Is this adaptive?

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Why does CHAP have a national medical director, registered nurse and social worker on staff who all specialize in hospice? These organizations got together to bring national experts together and to say, “Why during this unprecedented time of human longevity have evidence-based geriatric health care models not taken root?

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Alex: Also returning Rebecca Sudore, who is professor of medicine at the UCSF in the division of geriatrics, and is a geriatric and palliative care doctor. Ideally, there’ll be a place in the chart that actually captures the name of that person and their contact information. Welcome back, Rebecca. Rebecca: Yeah.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

We must often deliver complex medical information that carries heavy emotional weight in pressured settings to individuals with varying cultural backgrounds, values, and beliefs. Alex 01:35 And welcoming back as guest host Anne Kelly, who’s a social worker in palliative care. I’ll just try to go with the information.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

To me, that feels hard because I guess my inclination is that I want communication to be fixable, and there’s so much medical information and there’s a lot of reasons for families to feel like they’re struggling to understand. What was it, 5%? Eric: 2% of the time. Alex: 2% of the time.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

But we can’t lose sight of the system level, the x individual outside of the individual, the system level factors that inform our day to day workplace experience. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

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 social workers or nurses or docs to do it. Summary Transcript Summary.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

One bump is just the classic pitfalls we often talk about in serious illness communication: being very jargony, very information focused, and just providing information. Eric: Do you also think that there’s a role for increasing informality, because, oftentimes in these clinical encounters, things are incredibly formal.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary Last week we talked about a trial of a nurse and social worker outpatient palliative care intervention published in JAMA. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Good to see you.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Eric and I are joined today on this podcast by Anne Kelly palliative care social worker to discuss these issues with Liz. Alex: And joining us as she has many times, Anne Kelly is a social worker at the San Francisco VA. At the end we also pay tribute to Randy Curtis, senior author on this paper and mentor to Liz.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

She’s Professor and Vice Chair for Research at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine. Alex: We’re delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Krista Harrison, who is a Health Policy Researcher, an Associate Professor of Medicine, UCSF Division of Geriatrics.

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Pallimed

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

People are not always well informed and have a mix of beliefs, born out of individual experiences, family background, and culture. IF you can figure out how public health guidance impacts a person in potentially negative ways, then you can acknowledge that (and sometimes work to mitigate with help of social workers, etc).

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. It used to also be a social worker and myself who would actually go to clinic and spend some time up there. Said social worker has left since then, so it’s now just me.

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

To Brian’s point, that we are also integrating chaplains, social workers, it’s not necessarily two psychotherapists. Brian: I mean, bottom line in clinical research or psychedelic medicines, we don’t have a lot of information on safety anyway, and we definitely don’t have it in older adults.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 00:15 We are delighted to welcome back Louise Aronson, who’s a geriatrician and author in the UCSF division of Geriatrics. And it’s not the same, but it does provide information. And it bothers me how the nurses are there, the physical therapists are there, some of the social workers are there.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

We all, when bombarded with information have to take certain elements of a decision and focus on those; and in the ICU, you can imagine, we’re bombarded with information a lot. We have our social workers and our psychologists and we know how to manage these symptoms. They’re because of the treatment.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

It’s also what are the pieces of information we’re bringing to the table when we start providing care for residents? Those are evidence-based or evidence-informed tools that have been in practice. Eric: So Jasmine, we hit on care delivery, we also hit apparently on health information technology. Jasmine: Technology.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Keri: It’s all normal, and it’s all data that can better inform our practice. And the anger was… I was the one delivering the bad news, but the anger was very much directed at a social worker on our service who’s female. Eric: Bored, thinking about- Dani: Feel helpless. Eric: Yeah. Dani: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

But I think what we’re missing a lot of information on what Joe is talking about is just how much variation there is in that within both non-profit and for-profit, and I think these issues are coming up in non-profit hospices as well, and we just don’t have the data because the information is not reported to anybody.

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AlayaCare

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

You could also sort referral sources into categories, such as: Government agencies Other healthcare professionals Senior and geriatric advisors Miscellaneous other sources Are there places outside of the home that you can think of as potential partnership opportunities? One example could be a local house cleaning business or a pharmacy.

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AlayaCare

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Senior and geriatric advisors. Here are some pieces of information that you should include: What do you offer. The social workers and nurses you interact with may get busy, and they may also interact with your competitors. One example could be a local house cleaning business or a pharmacy. Other healthcare professionals.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

So their practices were really collaborative and informed. So we know that when we cultivate illness and prognostic awareness, patients make more informed decisions about their care, both in terms of their medical care, but in terms of their life decisions and their priorities and their values. And those two are closely aligned.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. It was about me talking about what happens about six months, when you have six months or less to live, the general information of what people usually look like. laughter] Eric: Well.

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