GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

I saw a person who couldn’t access the social determinants of health. And yet in my other rotations and experiences, it was so clear that we were resourcing people with palliative care resources very well. The Peach program has cared for over 1,000 clients. It’s been quite a ride.

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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. Liz: Yeah, palliative care teams is exactly one of those institutional factors.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

We have our social workers and our psychologists and we know how to manage these symptoms. Eric: We just did a podcast on creating palliative care consults. It was the default palliative care consult podcast where it was just layered on top of existing palliative care resources.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

So our outpatient palliative care team does not have psychiatrists or psychologists or frankly, social workers. And that’s kind of the model that again, when we’ve studied this model in other care settings, we have to force that care model on them, even though other institutions do have different makeup.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, basically, with a stepped care model, the goal is to tailor care delivery to the patient’s needs while at the same time utilizing less clinician resources. How it works is that all patients will have access or encounters with the specialty trained clinician, a psychologist, a social worker, a palliative care clinician.

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