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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. But what about the socialworkers and the chaplains?
Of note: these lessons apply to geriatrics, primary care, hospital medicine, critical care, cancer care, etc, etc. socialworker, chaplain), everyone should be able to ask a question or two about spiritual concerns, social concerns, or physical concerns. I think geriatrics very proud of interprofessional care.
David Bekelman conducted a RCT of a nurse and socialworker telephone intervention (ADAPT intervention) for people with heart failure and lung disease (COPD or ILD). So, you actually just got a first author publication, JAMA, looking at a nursing and socialwork intervention in heart failure, ILD, and… What was the third again?
She is a guest host and she’s a palliative care socialworker. So for me, and I think really that’s vetted in a lot of the literature and work too is just universally bringing this approach across the team and really everyone kind of understanding how we show up in a trauma informed way. Alex 00:07 We do.
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, socialwork nurse, doctor extraordinaire, you sit down with her. She started her career as a nurse and probably her heightened that worked against her. She put her back out.
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. Welcome back, Lynn.
I love this survey because it is mostly of physicians, which physicians are doing the lion’s share of the palliative care work here, but what you say you’re comfortable doing for depression care might not dovetail with what a psychologist or socialworker would do in the context of depression care. Elissa: Right?
We talk about why it’s so hard with Abby Rosenberg (chief of PC at DFCI and Boston Childrens), Nick Purol (clinical socialworker 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.
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. . The outpatient clinic and how that’s going to work. You work with who’s there and they, they deliver care.
It was started by a socialworker who really saw some gaps in care with those at end-of-life, particularly those with chronic long-term illness, having important conversations. What the socialworkers are … Eric: Yeah. Beth: From a hospice standpoint, we obviously have the nursing support, socialwork chaplaincy.
We have our socialworkers and our psychologists and we know how to manage these symptoms. We’re looking at a number of those, like did they have socialwork? And when I presented it to the transplant team, they said, “This is interesting, but we don’t need that. They’re because of the treatment.
How it works is that all patients will have access or encounters with the specialty trained clinician, a psychologist, a socialworker, a palliative care clinician. You got palliative care psychologists and socialworkers and pharmacists and MP’s and physicians and nurses, you know, the chaplains.
Training Hospitalists in Negotiations to Address Conflicts with Older Adults around Their Social Needs. Geriatrics. Alex: We are delighted to welcome back Lee Lindquist, who’s a geriatrician and chief of geriatrics at Northwestern. Prior to working with Lee, I was working at a senior center as a caregiver specialist. .”
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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. I find that it works a little bit better when it’s specific to a profession. Alex: We have a wonderful full house today, Eric.
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