Hospice News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Furthermore, nearly half (49.4%) indicated they had never met with a palliative care physician or nurse (58.4%) as part of their overall cancer care experience. More than half (58%) of these cancer patients indicated that an oncologist recommendation would have led them to seek palliative care.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

Alex: We are delighted to welcome to the GeriPal Podcast, Kellie Flood, who is a geriatrician at the University of Alabama Birmingham and associate Chief Quality Officer for Geriatrics and Care Transitions. And also to have those folks proactively assessing and addressing geriatric syndromes. Kellie, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

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. Negotiation Training for Case Managers to Improve Older Adult Acceptance of Services.

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Chicago Caregiving

JUNE 30, 2022

Because of this wide range of needs, geriatric care is among the most challenging specialties to manage. Care for one person often includes the physician, consultant physicians, physical or occupational therapists, a speech therapist, a dietician, a social worker, home-care nurses, and numerous others, she says.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

Attendee 14: I am most hopeful that as palliative caregivers, we will continue to authentically welcome the voices of our interprofessional team members, chaplains, social workers, and so we have true interprofessional collaboration. We need good nurse practitioners. Alex: Nursing homes. We need good Docs.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Alex: And we are delight to welcome Lindsey Yourman, who is a geriatrician, she’s a longtime friend and mentee, and is now a peer and is a key component of the ePrognosis working group and helped originate the ideas that led to ePrognosis and she’s now San Diego County’s Chief Geriatrics Officer. Welcome to GeriPal, Lindsey.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

We’ve invited: Julie McFadden (aka Hospice Nurse Julie ): Julie is a social media superstar, with 1.5 And then Hospice Nurse Julie. Julie McFadden goes by Hospice Nurse Julie. I’m going to start off with Nurse Julie, Hospice Nurse Julie, I think that’s your full title on TikTok. Just kidding.

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Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2022

Do you have a doctor and a social worker that can work on, for instance, Medicaid eligibility. I had my standard two times a week nursing, one time a week social worker, once a month chaplain, once every other month music therapist. Our physicians are generally uncomfortable with those conversations.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. We have Alice Bonner, who’s Chair of the Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition. Alex: Great.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

They’re going to get older, they’re going to struggle with geriatric conditions, and they’re going to need palliative services and eventually end-of-life care. It was built in 1955, so it wasn’t designed for a geriatric population. Everybody has a primary care doctor, a primary care nurse, a team.

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

Nikki Davis: I’m a nurse practitioner and have been working in geriatrics and palliative care for about 21 years now. I made my way through the ranks as a CNA, then a registered nurse, and then a nurse practitioner and now, I’m in a leadership position.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. Physical therapy had walked with him that day and noted improvement compared to previous walks, suggesting that he should be discharged to a skilled nursing facility for rehabilitation on discharge.

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Shining Light Hospice

MARCH 27, 2023

Hospice teams typically include primary healthcare physicians, specialists such as pain management doctors, nurses, home health aides (if applicable), social workers, counselors, chaplains/spiritual advisors, therapists, and volunteers.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. 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.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

It was started by a social worker who really saw some gaps in care with those at end-of-life, particularly those with chronic long-term illness, having important conversations. I was alone with her in the end of a long hallway at a nursing home health center. What the social workers are … Eric: Yeah.

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AlayaCare

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

You could also sort referral sources into categories, such as: Government agencies Other healthcare professionals Senior and geriatric advisors Miscellaneous other sources Are there places outside of the home that you can think of as potential partnership opportunities? One example could be a local house cleaning business or a pharmacy.

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AlayaCare

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Senior and geriatric advisors. The social workers and nurses you interact with may get busy, and they may also interact with your competitors. One example could be a local house cleaning business or a pharmacy. You could also sort referral sources into categories, such as: Government agencies. Miscellaneous other sources.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

We also talk with Emily Largent, a bioethicist and former ICU nurse, who argues in a Hastings Center Report for an expanded vision of patient consent. I’d hazard that maybe half the patients I care for at the intersection of geriatrics and palliative care fall in the gray zone. That’s a huge amount of news all at once. Lynn: Thank you.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

We welcome all professions, including but not limited to physicians, chaplains, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, case managers, administrators, and pharmacists. Could it be the bedside nurse? It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions. link] Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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Chicago Caregiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The Care Plan also serves Black and Brown communities, says Boyd, who, prior to founding The Care Plan, spent more than a decade in various leadership roles at geriatric care facilities in Chicago. So she took a six-week course to earn her certified nursing assistant license. That foundation in caregiving has served me so well.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Alex: We are delighted to welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Susan Hickman, who is professor at the Indiana University schools of nursing and medicine, and is director of the IU Center for Aging Research at the Regenstrief Institute. I have done a lot of work on POLST and nursing homes and I’ve seen POLST forms. What is advanced?

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

A colleague of mine up in Toronto did an ICU study actually asking clinicians, nurses, docs, six-month prognosis, both functional and vital status and compared it with actual observed status. We have our social workers and our psychologists and we know how to manage these symptoms. It wasn’t just any nurse.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Why does CHAP have a national medical director, registered nurse and social worker on staff who all specialize in hospice? These organizations got together to bring national experts together and to say, “Why during this unprecedented time of human longevity have evidence-based geriatric health care models not taken root?

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GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

We talk about why it’s so hard with Abby Rosenberg (chief of PC at DFCI and Boston Childrens), Nick Purol (clinical social worker 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.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

She’s Professor and Vice Chair for Research at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine. Alex: We’re delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Krista Harrison, who is a Health Policy Researcher, an Associate Professor of Medicine, UCSF Division of Geriatrics. Lauren: Hi.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

More recently Sharon Kaufman ‘s book And a Time to Die described the ways in which physicians, nurses, hospital systems, and payment mechanisms influenced the hour and manner of patient’s deaths. Eric and I are joined today on this podcast by Anne Kelly palliative care social worker to discuss these issues with Liz.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Today we talk with Fayron Epps and Karen Moss, two nurse researchers who are focused on improving the experience of Black/African American caregivers of persons living with dementia. Why are nurse researchers in particular critical to the study of these issues? You both are nurse leaders who are doing this unique work out there.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

She’s a hospice and palliative care nurse practitioner and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at UCSF. How many patients is my hospice nurse case manager responsible for on any given day? When I talk to our nurses, that’s what it’s about. Alex: We have some wonderful guests. Who sees you?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Yeah, the, “Nothing left for us to do, I remember Patrice Velars, one of the nurse practitioners who’s now retired, but was on our palliative care service for years, she used to say, “Well, what about palliative care?” I think we use VitalTalk and we use SPIKES and NURSE and the REMAP. We teach those.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

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. . You’re not hiring a bunch of social workers or nurses or docs to do it. Kate: Yeah, the nursing homes.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary Last week we talked about a trial of a nurse and social worker outpatient palliative care intervention published in JAMA. He’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc/researcher in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Good to see you. Ashwin, welcome back.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

You’re a senior author on this article in JPSM, where you interviewed some geriatricians and other people caring for older adults, nurse practitioners, social workers, et cetera. I think this is actually bread and butter geriatrics. You interviewed some geriatricians. And so, that’s what we learned from them.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

Then I started reading about this and a British nurse started preaching palliative care all over India. We have 13 social workers, many more social workers than doctors. Rajagopal appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

So I think about social workers, pastoral care professionals, like spiritual care clinicians. For a palliative care physician, or a palliative care nurse to take the time out of their day to implement dignity therapy? .” You want to be doing enough of it, so that you gain facility.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

And my interest in this is that I think about, having been a clinical social worker for 35 years in the space of palliative and oncology care, is how does that impact how we choose to say what we do with our patients and families? It just absolutely has to. And the focus was on those difficult deaths. It can be interdisciplinary.

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