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Influence of Hospital Culture on Intensity of Care: Liz Dzeng

GeriPal

Eric and I are joined today on this podcast by Anne Kelly palliative care social worker to discuss these issues with Liz. Alex: And joining us as she has many times, Anne Kelly is a social worker at the San Francisco VA. And palliative care friendliness was definitely a very important factor to this.

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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

GeriPal

So I think there’s definitely overlap with that, but I think helping patients cope, make priorities, think through their goals and values early and along the illness course does facilitate and enable better end of life decision making, including advanced care planning. And I do think that is the way of the future.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

We have our social workers and our psychologists and we know how to manage these symptoms. Eric: We just did a podcast on creating palliative care consults. It was the default palliative care consult podcast where it was just layered on top of existing palliative care resources.