GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

What is unique about the practice of palliative care for people experiencing homelessness? We discuss the principles of harm reduction, social determinants of health, and trauma informed care. What we hear is that it is more trauma informed in many contexts to have people first language. On bias and trauma as you.

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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. Eric: We just did a podcast on creating palliative care consults. Were these two resources already there? Was this the same?

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

So the reason why our palliative care team had those coping skills, which we often traditionally think is more on the purview of a psychologist, is just because of Mass General being a general hospital, palliative care grew up with a very close and collaborative relationship with psychiatry and psychology.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Liz: Yeah, palliative care teams is exactly one of those institutional factors. Well, it’s not an institutional factor, but institutions can either support having more palliative care teams, better palliative care resources, being palliative care friendly or being less so.

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Hospice News

JUNE 5, 2023

I think those are the things that you’d have to check the box on at this point to really go far in value-based care. I have heard a lot of ACO people being very frustrated that they’re like, “We have this palliative care program but there’s a three month waiting list. What’s the point?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So quality of life was, if we want to talk about just the as good as the more intensive model, but we used significantly fewer palliative care resources. So basically, to achieve the same quality of life benefit as the intensive arm patients saw palliative care, significantly fewer. Eric 31:38 Half is less, right?

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