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Alex 01:56 And returning guest, Vicki Jackson, who’s a palliative care doc, chief of the Division of Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine at MGH , professor at Harvard Medical School, and co director of the Harvard Medical School center for Palliative Care. So those social workers were involved. Simone, welcome to GeriPal.
Barbara highlights social workers’ inherent leadership qualities and tasks us to consider whether our own team and organizational structures are allowing for optimal socialwork engagement and influence. So in preparation for this, I read a couple articles about socialwork leadership in palliative care.
So just by the nature of prognosis there, and I think, you know, this, this is really where I think the, the value of an interdisciplinary team, which we do so well in geriatrics and palliative care, is important in thinking about approach to these patients because perspective. Ashwin 23:46 Yeah. And I love the structured approach.
end of life care and advance care planning) to more geriatrics focused (e.g. AlexSmithMD (still on Twitter at present). 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. staff training in person centered care).
I’d hazard that maybe half the patients I care for at the intersection of geriatrics and palliative care fall in the gray zone. Invoking this principle, Emily argues for an expanded role for patients in the gray area and their inner circle working together along a spectrum of cooperative decision-making.
Alex Smith Links Link to the McGill National Grand Rounds Series on Palliative Care , Michael Kearney as initial presenter, and registration for future events. But, you know, you’ve got socialwork, you’ve got chaplaincy, and patients are important part of that. Is that how we presented ourselves?
Alex 10:52 And did you have algorithms you’d present to them, like given this patient’s circumstance, these are recommendations? We have two hospitals that were community hospitals without palliative care or socialwork support. Was the clinician working frontline in those community hospitals? No, no, no.
We’re also delight to welcome Carla Perissinotto, who is a geriatrician palliative care doc at UCSF in the division of geriatrics. I moved to Baltimore in 2015 and did clinical fellowship in geriatrics. Thomas: But the person did screen and used a little bit of the and Social Network Scale and the UCLA Loneliness Scale.
So I allow family members to be present if they want them to. I think we also lean into, I’ve learned so much from my socialwork 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. That’s fine.
Heather Coats is hard at work establishing the evidence base for the power of capturing patient stories in healthcare settings, for those health systems that need a little more convincing. . Wonderful work. Many links: VA Presents: My Life, My Story: George: A Voice To Be Heard on Apple Podcasts. Every Veteran has a story.
Alex: I saw Des present this work during the NPC, National Palliative Care Research Center Foley retreat this past year in Jackson Hole. And so, one of the amazing things I think about your work, Des, is the way that you’ve tried to create a model that works in the world in which we live. Eric: I love this.
Summary Transcript Summary Our guests today present an important rejoinder to the argument that we should refocus away from advance care planning (ACP). Sarah Nouri gives an example from her work in the LGBTQ+ community of a trans woman who was buried as a man because existing laws/rules did not protect her wishes. Sarah: Thank you.
Well, as a kick off to this year’s first in-person State of the Science plenary, held in conjunction with the closing Saturday session of the AAHPM/HPNA Annual Assembly, 3 randomized clinical trials were presented. And when I presented it to the transplant team, they said, “This is interesting, but we don’t need that.
In addition to being a palliative and hospice RN, she is the Executive Director for Goodwin Hospice , a large non-profit hospice that added end-of-life doula care to their services in collaboration with Jane and John’s doula organization, Present for You. What the social workers are … Eric: Yeah. Jane: Thank you for having me.
We have Vickie Leff who’s Executive Director of the Advanced Palliative and Hospice SocialWork Certification Program and also teaches in the UNC School of SocialWork. Alex: We have a wonderful full house today, Eric. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Vickie. Vickie: Thank you so much for having me.
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