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. I saw a person who couldn’t access the social determinants of health. 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 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. We have our social workers and our psychologists and we know how to manage these symptoms. Were these two resources already there?

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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

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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