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How Palliative Care Is Changing in Today’s Health Care Environment

Hospice News

However, he also emphasized the challenge of deploying skilled professionals to the home-based arena, where he said the best providers typically have combined skills in primary care, palliative care and even geriatrics. “We She also underscored workforce shortages.

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

GeriPal

David Bekelman conducted a RCT of a nurse and social worker telephone intervention (ADAPT intervention) for people with heart failure and lung disease (COPD or ILD). ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. David: Yeah.

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Meet Scott, who cares for his older sister

Chicago Caregiving

Back home, he reached out to DuPage County, found local nonprofit Metropolitan Family Services , and also researched geriatric care management services in his sister’s city. Having an independent social worker do an assessment for stress helped make it real. It’s a crisis for them day in and day out,” he says.

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Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

GeriPal

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. So in the VA, psychologist and a social worker and a chaplain and a doctor and a nurse are all mandated components of a palliative care team. We have a social worker.” For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu. Elissa: Right?

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

Every member of the team, even for me, for whatever reason, that switched me from focusing on trying to be in pulmonary critical care to become actually a geriatrician, choose the geriatric fellowship. And these care navigator, they can be community health worker with just 12 years of education. They can be a- Diane: Social worker.

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Public Facing Education via Social Media: A Podcast with Julie McFadden, Matt Tyler, Sammy Winemaker and Hsien Seow

GeriPal

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. For GeriPal, it’s really to bring geriatrics and palliative care together. We’re a clinician-facing podcast, nurses, doctors, social workers, chaplains, et cetera, primarily researchers. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

Bernie Lo discloses being an Honorarium Recipient and consultant for Takeda starting on 01/23/2024. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. They didn’t come up in geriatrics very much. And we see that too in geriatrics. Alex and Eric, both of you attend in geriatrics.

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