GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Well, as a kick off to this year’s first in-person State of the Science plenary, held in conjunction with the closing Saturday session of the AAHPM/HPNA Annual Assembly, 3 randomized clinical trials were presented. And when I presented it to the transplant team, they said, “This is interesting, but we don’t need that.

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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

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? Keri: We definitely have a case. Keri: Definitely, yes. Definitely a deviation. Dani: Yeah, so the way you presented was triggering to them. Eric: Three steps. So let’s jump into it.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

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: Well, I just happen to have a definition here, Eric. So we did focus though, Eric, and then I will stop, we did focus more on loss. It’s sort of like all of us in supportive care.

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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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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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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. Eric: Do you have a definition of dignity now? I’m fully present. Harvey: Good question. I’m not distracted. ” Eric: Yeah.

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The Productive Home Health Nurse

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Especially because Hilary definitely told you that she had 2 weeks worth of orientation and preceptor time. The main caveat for this benefit is that the patients that we see must qualify as being “homebound” per Medicare standards and definitions. Killin’ it! Hmmm, what’s really going on here…??!!

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Hospice Nurse Hero

MARCH 2, 2022

PRO-TIP : If your patient is in the nursing home, call the family and invite them to be present during your visit! Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying you have to like negative feedback but you should definitely learn from it. To be honest, the insight of the chaplains and social workers was always impressive.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Well, it’s not just being present, though. Forget you as a doctor right now, or as social workers, think about you as a person meeting this person at a bar. And oftentimes the existential landscape of serious illness, there’s no special thing. Oftentimes, it’s human presence that does the most healing.

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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

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, Lynn. Lynn: Thank you.

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

And we had the date, if it was present in the EHR, to provide that context for the clinician. I think that was always cool is that we adopted a pretty broad definition. And when we presented it to the DSMC, which Alex was a member too, but we thought it was nice. POLST advanced directives, what am I forgetting?

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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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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. I think I’m heartened by the fact that over the last decade or so, the definition of advance care planning has evolved. Rebecca: Can I jump in.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 27, 2023

So whether that’s, you know, skilled nursing, physical therapy, social worker, speech therapists, all different modalities that we work closely with, which is really important factor. Laura Coyle ( 15:00 ): That definitely puts them at, at a higher risk. So we need to make sure we cover that for them.

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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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