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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

GeriPal

And I think that I love this paper you wrote because the audience or the patients that you focused on in the last four years in particular also in a Venn diagram, like many of the same patients I care for in home based primary care. And also of course this, the psychosocial support we can, can give. Ashwin 23:46 Yeah.

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Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

end of life care and advance care planning) to more geriatrics focused (e.g. Alex: And we’re also delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast Kenny Lam, who’s assistant professor of medicine at UCSF in the Division of Geriatrics. RCFEs, boarding cares, nursing homes. Welcome back, Kenny. Welcome back.

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

GeriPal

But what I remember from that is at the end of your week long rotation, Michael, everybody gets a chance if they wanted to sit down with Cicely Saunders, social work nurse, doctor extraordinaire, you sit down with her. Brought to mind the neglect and warehouse style nursing home home shabbiness of les hospices.

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Who should get Palliative Care? Kate Courtright

GeriPal

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. . Alex: So the proven trial was that the video in the nursing homes? Kate: Yeah, the nursing homes.

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Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

I think we also lean into, I’ve learned so much from my social work colleagues and/or my spiritual care provider colleagues because they do really lean into some of these other aspects of the who, not just the physical. The flip side of this is in those notes so much of that is about how the patient is and not who.

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End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane

GeriPal

I was alone with her in the end of a long hallway at a nursing home health center. What the social workers are … Eric: Yeah. Beth: From a hospice standpoint, we obviously have the nursing support, social work chaplaincy. We have volunteers, we have CNAs.

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

I think we also lean into, I’ve learned so much from my social work colleagues and/or my spiritual care provider colleagues because they do really lean into some of these other aspects of the who, not just the physical. The flip side of this is in those notes so much of that is about how the patient is and not who.