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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

Social pain and loneliness. Rajagopal (goes by β€œRaj”), one of the pioneers of palliative care in India. Raj is an anesthesiologist turned palliative care doctor. He is also author of the book, β€œ Walk with the Weary: Lessons in Humanity in Health Care ,” and was featured in this Atlantic article. Community-based palliative care networks .

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

Michele: Yeah, so in May of 2018, there was an article by Suleika Jaouad in the New York Times Magazine, and they spent about two weeks in our hospice with us learning about the work that’s done. And what she found most compelling was the work of the peer workers. Shout out to the UC Berkeley-USCF Joint Medical Program.

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Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold

GeriPal

2018 Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews on ACP. Alex: Also returning Rebecca Sudore, who is professor of medicine at the UCSF in the division of geriatrics, and is a geriatric and palliative care doctor. Alex: What did it changed to after 2018? We can work it out! AlexSmithMD. Transcript. This is Eric Widera.

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Jumpstarting Goals of Care Convos: Erin Kross, Bob Lee, and Ruth Engelberg

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary Today’s podcast is a follow up to our 2018 podcast with Randy Curtis about the Jumpstart intervention. I wonder if we can just start off just going back a little bit because we had Randy on back in 2018 talking about Jumpstart, priming patients to do goals of care conversations. Welcome, Bob. Eric: Yeah.

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

GeriPal

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. And I think social workers, advanced practitioners, nurses, really feel comfortable giving functional prognoses more so than time-based prognoses.

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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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