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Grief, Loss, and Well-Being Debriefing: Vickie Leff, Matthew Loscalzo, Craig Blinderman

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You’d imagine though that our professional expertise and experiences in helping patients and families cope with loss and grief would be helpful in managing our own personal losses. Vickie worked with CAPC to create tools, including a facilitator guide, to encourage clinicians and their organizations to adopt debriefings. .

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End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane

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What the social workers are … Eric: Yeah. Beth: From a hospice standpoint, we obviously have the nursing support, social work chaplaincy. She’s also a celebrant and she can be called in and we work with her a lot, but you can be certified as a celebrant and some doulas are absolutely doing that.

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Group ACP and Equity: Sarah Nouri, Hillary Lum, LJ Van Scoy

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Complicated grief? In a group visit there is a social norming effect – “if my neighbor is doing it, perhaps I should be doing it to?” We have Sarah Nouri, who is a palliative care doc and researcher at UCSF. Alex: And we have Hillary Lum, who is a geriatrics and palliative care researcher at the University of Colorado.

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