GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

And importantly, our social worker, Aunt Kelly, actually does a search and I would say 75% of the time she finds somebody maybe even higher than that, finds somebody who’s actually a surrogate. Let’s say they’re in the ICU now on a ventilator. To have a social worker who’s dedicated in many places.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

And that helped them focus on that instead of, say, the blood pressure, the vasopressors or the ventilator settings that day. And then they had to be receiving 48 hours of continuous mechanical ventilation at a minimum and be an adult. We have our social workers and our psychologists and we know how to manage these symptoms.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

And now ICU care has flourished, and we can keep people alive in the sense that their heart is beating and we can sustain their ventilation and circulation. For example, I had another patient in the ICU who she was on a ventilator. ICU care was pretty rudimentary. It’s certainly not common in my practice.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

But luckily, Anne Kelly, our social worker, was in the room with me and said the magic thing that just was the right thing to say. And yet, when the reality of breathing difficulties, BIPAP, the talks of tracheostomy and ventilators set in, what had seemed so clear on that piece of paper, no longer seemed so clear.

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Home Care Pulse

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Alice has stated that she is unsure about a feeding tube but is certain she does not want a ventilator or other assistive breathing device. Do your social workers know how to access the lending closet for specialized equipment? Her grandso n was able to receive support from the social worker and the child life specialist.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

It used to also be a social worker and myself who would actually go to clinic and spend some time up there. Said social worker has left since then, so it’s now just me. Eric 06:20 Your team look like, is it just you from the palliative care perspective? Sarah 06:23 It’s just me.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Their oxygenation, while important, whether or not we can take them off the ventilator, probably has nothing to do with the big picture, oh, and they’re dying of metastatic pancreatic cancer. And even, like in the ICU, you have this problem, is it getting better or worse? It may not be the big, big problem if you take a big step back.

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