GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team social worker. But are we really taking full advantage of ALL social workers have to offer our field? I don’t know if this person was a social worker or not. Barbara: Yay.

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

Nikki Davis: I’m a nurse practitioner and have been working in geriatrics and palliative care for about 21 years now. It is something that I have been involved with in a past life, but I was definitely not where I would consider myself a subject matter expert.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

Julie: I definitely feel like that because unfortunately, now I’m… And this is what I’m working on now is it’s really hard not to get focused on numbers and views and if someone’s going to like it, and now I have a book that I’m trying to sell, which I hate that feeling- Eric: You’ve got a brand.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Because, if anybody hasn’t seen it, you’ve got a great Twitter feed that gives tons of pearls on palliative care and a lot on communication. Yeah, I think we took a pretty broad definition in the article, but really it’s any failure to communicate clearly and adequately. What motivated you to dive into this?

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

Social pain and loneliness. How definitions bind us, for example the division between chronic pain and palliative pain in much of the US. Somehow we were not very limited by definitions. Definitions can be shackles. Raj: We are not limited by definitions because we started our first non non-government organization.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Most of the debate seems rather wonky, as honestly it feels like we are getting stuck in the weeds of semantics and definitions, like what counts as ACP versus in the moment decisions. And I think social workers, advanced practitioners, nurses, really feel comfortable giving functional prognoses more so than time-based prognoses.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

However if you want to take a deeper dive, check out his website “ The Ink Vessel ” or his amazing twitter feed which has a lot of his work in it. If you look back to some of my cartoons from late in residency, they showed just how dehumanized I felt and definitely give windows into how dehumanized I imagined my patients to be.

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