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How Hospice Supports Families

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However, by 2017, home surpassed hospitals, nursing homes, and every other place as the most common place of death. On the other hand, the trend of more Americans dying at home also presents challenges for families that we may have not seen for a century. References. Ferrell B, Mazanec P. Family Caregivers. Elwert F, Christakis NA.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

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This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. I want to say like 2017, 2018, something like that. Alex: Yeah.

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The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks

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Though his narrow definition of suffering as injured or threatened personhood has been critiqued , the central concept was a motivating force for many of us to enter the fields of geriatrics and palliative care, Eric and I included. Today we talk about suffering in the many forms we encounter in palliative care. Naomi: Yes, I do. Eric: Yeah.

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

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We’re also delight to welcome Carla Perissinotto, who is a geriatrician palliative care doc at UCSF in the division of geriatrics. It was probably around, I would say, 2017 when I started seeing a lot of interest and starting to see things like the UK Minister for Loneliness. Welcome back to the GeriPal podcast. You just knew it?

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

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And so the definition of advance care planning really switched in, I think, 2017, 2018, there was kind of a United States definition and then an international consensus definition. appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. What are your goals? What are your values?

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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

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I am constantly talking to clinical social workers about what are the ways that you can be contributing to research, to publications, to scholarship, to presentations, even if it’s a reflection paper? Now … I think it was 2017 that we began that. What are the ways that you can tell the story, the practice that you do?