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Palliative Care Conference: A Discussion with nVoq

Hospice News

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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Influence of Hospital Culture on Intensity of Care: Liz Dzeng

GeriPal

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. At the end we also pay tribute to Randy Curtis, senior author on this paper and mentor to Liz.

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Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt

GeriPal

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.

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Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh

GeriPal

That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. I moved to Boston in 2015 to start my PhD and I’ve always worked clinically at MGH during the process, but I was very interested in this notion of measuring function and frailty. Has this patient been out of bed?

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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. I think the big one for me, it was in 2015. 2015, 2016. They can be a- Diane: Social worker. Malaz: Yeah.

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Diverse Caregivers

Chicago Caregiving

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. The Care Plan began operation in 2015 to serve these clients. This includes the 2.4 Boyd’s focus has proven ahead of its time.

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Ep.18: BK Books with Barbara Karnes: Why Approaching Hospice Holistically is Necessary to the Success of the Care Continuum

Home Care Pulse

She has won the N H P C O Hospice Innovator Award in 2018, and she was the 2015 International Humanitarian Woman of the Year. You need to, and, and to say, well, you know, you can talk to the social worker anytime or you can talk to our chaplain anytime. If you’re really a, a healthcare worker is really struggling.

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