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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

To provide context, we are joined by Karen Steinhauser, a social scientist at Duke who has been studying spirituality for years (and published one of the most cited papers in palliative care on factors considered important at the end of life , as well as one of my favorite qualitative papers to give to research trainees ). Alex: So, yeah.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

Social pain and loneliness. Rajagopal (goes by “Raj”), one of the pioneers of palliative care in India. Raj is an anesthesiologist turned palliative care doctor. He is also author of the book, “ Walk with the Weary: Lessons in Humanity in Health Care ,” and was featured in this Atlantic article. Community-based palliative care networks .

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Comics and Humor in Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nathan Gray

GeriPal

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. The fact that my cartoons, thanks to social media, I’m able to sort of get them out there in front of people. Why, because today we have Nathan Gray joining us. Transcript.

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Miscommunication in Medicine: A podcast with Shunichi Nakagawa, Abby Rosenberg and Don Sullivan

GeriPal

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. Don, welcome to GeriPal. Welcome back, Abby. Abby: Thank you. Abby: Thank you. So glad to be here. Shunichi, welcome back to GeriPal. Shunichi: Thank you for having me. Eric: Yeah.

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Episode 38: LWH Q&A #1

Living With Hospice

Don't wake them up to feed them or give them water or take medicine, just let them sleep, the body's doing what it's supposed to do. Important point here. I know that can be hard sometimes to watch. And we're so used to making sure that our loved one gets their meds and their food and the toileting and washing and everything on time.