GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

I’d hazard that maybe half the patients I care for at the intersection of geriatrics and palliative care fall in the gray zone. Alex: And a voice that will be very familiar to our listeners, a dynamic and enthusiastic social worker in palliative care at the San Francisco VA, Anne Kelly. Anne Kelly: Hi there. Nice to be here.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Additionally, I draw on my own personal experience as a caregiver to my older adult father, which started when I was twelve. He was in his early 60s when I was born, and he suffered a stroke in 1989, which threw our family into the post-acute medical care space and encouraged me to take on a caregiving role. How can we promote this?”

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Chicago Caregiving

MARCH 9, 2022

TV volume wars can be daunting, but the war to lower the volume can be won with the aid of technology, says Ann Hollander, founder of Options for Aging , a geriatric care management company based in Wilmette. It reduces socialization and activity levels, which often leads to depression and other health problems including dementia.”.

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Chicago Caregiving

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

“If they are healthy and active, you have some time, though the process still should not be put off too long , as things can change in one’s 70s, 80s, and 90s,” says Christopher D’Agostino, DO, director of geriatric services and chief medical officer at Acension Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital in Hoffman Estates.

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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. It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions. For inquiries or to apply, please contact gayle.kojimoto@ucsf.edu. But our study had some limitations.

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Chicago Caregiving

APRIL 20, 2022

The pandemic has been an especially difficult and confusing time for seniors, says Erika Hutz, DO, a specialist in geriatric and internal medicine at Swedish Medical Group. To stay on top of medical and mental health issues, Blankemeier recommends older adults: Limit social media consumption to avoid taking in too much negative information.

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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. What the social workers are … Eric: Yeah. Beth: From a hospice standpoint, we obviously have the nursing support, social work chaplaincy.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

David Bekelman conducted a RCT of a nurse and social worker telephone intervention (ADAPT intervention) for people with heart failure and lung disease (COPD or ILD). Alex: Yeah, two psychologists talking about psychological issues in palliative care and geriatrics. Big randomized control study that came out. David: Yeah.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Krista Harrison found , to her surprise, that caregivers of people with dementia who died rated hospice as well as similar patients without dementia who died on hospice. She’s Professor and Vice Chair for Research at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine. Melissa: Thank you.

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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 16, 2023

And the anger was… I was the one delivering the bad news, but the anger was very much directed at a social worker on our service who’s female. The caregiver apologized. But sometimes, like with that patient with laryngeal cancer I just mentioned, I partnered up and did joint visits with my social worker with him.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

Matt: So my entry with this handle on social media, unlike Julie, this was more of a deliberate effort and it was an effort born from common themes I would see at the bedside. For GeriPal, it’s really to bring geriatrics and palliative care together. laughter] Eric: Well. I wonder if you’ve had a similar sort of experience.

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Chicago Caregiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The Care Plan helps people navigate healthcare systems not set up for LGBTQ+ or racially diverse caregivers. 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. This includes the 2.4

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

We invited her back along with Alaine to talk about their work around negotiation training, including their work on NegotiAge , an online, AI based training intervention designed to teach negotiation skills to caregivers. . Training Hospitalists in Negotiations to Address Conflicts with Older Adults around Their Social Needs.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. There’s a book called The 36-hour day for dementia caregivers. They can be a- Diane: Social worker. Malaz: I love it.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

Attendee 11: I am hopeful that the model of care that we deliver is what our patients and their caregivers want, need and deserve. laugher] Alex: I’m hopeful that there will be some people listening to this who are the future content creators in the geriatrics and palliative care space, and I look forward to what they have to offer.

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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

MARCH 28, 2024

There is a lot of literature suggesting that standard transplant care doesn’t really meet the needs of these patients and their caregivers. Then we looked also a little bit long-term at three and six months, and we also looked at caregiver outcomes. Eric: Well, let’s talk about caregivers. Eric: Okay. Tom: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

2021 Association of Hospice Profit Status With Family Caregivers’ Reported Care Experiences. It might be complexity, it might be acuity, it might be the psychosocial situation or social determinants of health. Eric: Lack of a caregiver. Joseph: Lack of the caregiver. JAMA Health Forum. And yet they’re dying.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Our listeners will be familiar with Anne Kelly, who’s a social worker at the San Francisco VA, on the palliative care service, who wrote a JAMA piece of my mind title The Last Visit. There’s this beauty that’s there, whether we’re doing geriatrics, infectious disease, palliative care. Anne: Hi, guys.

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Home Care Pulse

MAY 16, 2023

Caregivers have at least three years of tenure, and nearly one out of four caregivers have worked with a long-term companion for at least five years. So we’re coming to really validate all the things that the caregivers are gonna be providing, not a clinical assessment. Today, almost half of a long-term companion’s.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

But luckily, Anne Kelly, our social worker, was in the room with me and said the magic thing that just was the right thing to say. And this caregiver saying, “I don’t know how much longer I can do this. I was just thinking back to yesterday, we were in a family meeting. Somebody asked the question.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

Just supporting each other too, because how many people are leaving healthcare, but especially leaving this geriatric medicine post-acute facet because they get frustrated or they get fearful of, of these kind of situations. If you’re really a, a healthcare worker is really struggling. Speaker 2 ( 20:32 ): Yeah, absolutely.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

For example, bachelor’s degrees for social workers. But I’m going to zoom out and say that I think the big solution to nursing homes is the big solution to a lot of our societal problems, which is valuing caregivers across the board. I think teamwork and effective leadership are absolutely critical. Eric: Excellent.

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