Elaine Mansfield
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
After the group settled, I read from my book Leaning into Love: A Spiritual Journey through Grief and told stories about my husband Vic’s death and my struggle to create a fulfilling life without him. I know it’s natural to discuss grief in a hushed voice, but I want to hear you.” Sixty-five years… Diabetes… A year ago… Nursing home.”
GeriPal
DECEMBER 2, 2022
She directs UCSF MERI’s patient, family, and clinician support with classes and consultation on resiliency, well-being, and grief. Eric: It really reminds me, we just did a couple podcasts on grief and part of grief is that where there’s often a movement towards acceptance, you never go back to who you were.
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The World According to Dr. El
MAY 3, 2022
After 25 years as a nursing home psychologist, it’s pretty exciting to see. Family psychotherapy sessions , since admitting a loved one to a nursing home can be very distressing. These days, mental health in long-term care is getting far more attention than it used to.
GeriPal
MARCH 7, 2024
Check out the Pub Crawl GeriPal post for more info, and follow #HPMParty on Twitter to keep us as we crawl! ** In the last several years, I’ve seen more and more articles about end-of-life doulas ( like this NY Times article from 2021 ). I was alone with her in the end of a long hallway at a nursing home health center.
GeriPal
JUNE 22, 2023
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 so the article focuses on the work of these three men who were mostly gang involved and did something really bad when they were young.
GeriPal
JULY 14, 2022
Imagine that you are the medical director of a large (>150 bed) nursing home. Two-thirds of the patients in the home now have COVID-19. The other physicians who previously saw patients in the nursing home are no longer coming to your facility because you have COVID positive patients. Summary Transcript Summary.
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