GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Dani and Kery present three steps for interacting with an angry patient: Look within: What is this anger bringing up in me? J Palliat Med. J Palliat Med. J Palliat Med. The last time this happened to me I immediately went on the defensive despite years of training in serious illness communication skills. doi:10.1089/jpm.2021.0256

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

We have Vickie Leff who’s Executive Director of the Advanced Palliative and Hospice Social Work Certification Program and also teaches in the UNC School of Social Work. There’s a lot written on grief, but so little is written on the loss experience and even a definition of loss is even lacking. Matthew: Thank you.

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Traditions Health

MAY 1, 2023

In this article, we review the definition of ALS, common ALS symptoms, and how you can better help and support your loved one by seeking the assistance of hospice care services. When to Seek Help Caring for someone with ALS often presents many challenges for the patient’s primary caregiver. What is ALS?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

You’d imagine that as a seasoned palliative care doc, I’d have a pretty good definition by now of what “maintaining dignity” or “loss of dignity” means, but you’d be sadly wrong. Alex: So it was motivated essentially by an effort to understand and palliate the sources of suffering that were leading people to choose to end their own lives.

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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

JULY 13, 2023

Randy died February 26, 2023. We begin today’s podcast asking his co-authors Erin Kross, Bob Lee, and Ruth Engelberg, all from the University of Washington and the Cambia Palliative Care Center of Excellence, to reflect on Randy and his dedication to seeing this work completed while living with ALS. Erin, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But also there’s also, because many more people… Oftentimes, when I’ll be at a meeting, if I’m presenting, I’ll ask for show of hands how many people have had experience with dementia. And these care navigator, they can be community health worker with just 12 years of education. Why do we need a story?”

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

But I do think POLST, which I conceptualize as an advance care planning tool, really sits in between those worlds of decisions that are relevant for the present versus the few future. Susan: Thanks so much, Alex. Alex: And we have returning, Bob Arnold, who is a palliative care doctor at the University of Pittsburgh. Welcome back, Bob.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Well, it’s not just being present, though. . – Anticipatory corpse book mentioned several times on the podcast. – GeriPal post about teaching using YouTube (some links are old and don’t work, but you get the idea, I recently gave a spontaneous talk to the palliative care fellows and was able to find the video snippets).

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

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. And one quibble with that of course is that we think the definition of capacity is that it’s task and context specific. Welcome back, Anne. Welcome back, Lynn.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Documentation errors are definitely one of the top reasons why it brings regulatory attention to a hospice’s doorstep. This was presented back in Tampa at a post-acute long-term care conference earlier this year, where we looked at the ability of speech recognition to drive down Medicare denials of claims.

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The Nurse Break

DECEMBER 4, 2022

For most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. Not just for the bereaved, Bearing the Unbearable will be required reading for grief counselors, therapists and social workers, clergy of all varieties, educators, academics, and medical professionals. Bearing the Unbearable – Dr. Joanne Cacciatore.

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

Some of them, like education, definitely social determinants of health. Ann Kelly, who’s been on the podcast many times, social worker on palliative care, she’s always under a minute. I presented this at the big clinical trials meeting in November in San Francisco. And how does it actually work?

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

I think there’s definitely a stigma that, like you said, we just all wanna be fixers and we almost don’t wanna take advantage of that, that thought that, oh, the things I did weren’t enough, or I, I wasn’t able to to really fix that person. If you’re really a, a healthcare worker is really struggling.

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