GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

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. A great website for dealing with loss and grief : refugeingrief.com. Loss is the thing that triggers grief and then we talk about grief.

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Shining Light Hospice

MARCH 27, 2023

Hospice teams typically include primary healthcare physicians, specialists such as pain management doctors, nurses, home health aides (if applicable), social workers, counselors, chaplains/spiritual advisors, therapists, and volunteers.

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Chicago Caregiving

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Grief has no timeline. If you rush the process, each item tossed into the discards bag may feel like a punch in the gut to the parent already beaten down by grief. If you rush the process, each item tossed into the discards bag may feel like a punch in the gut to the parent already beaten down by grief. Hold a family meeting.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

They’re going to get older, they’re going to struggle with geriatric conditions, and they’re going to need palliative services and eventually end-of-life care. It was built in 1955, so it wasn’t designed for a geriatric population. We have medical social workers who support the patients.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Our listeners will be familiar with Anne Kelly, who’s a social worker at the San Francisco VA, on the palliative care service, who wrote a JAMA piece of my mind title The Last Visit. As I went through my grief process, journaling and writing was not something I did. Eric: Alex, we got a full house today. Anne: Hi, guys.

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Geriatrics 2020 Palliative care Social worker 186

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

We welcome all professions, including but not limited to physicians, chaplains, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, case managers, administrators, and pharmacists. And it might include spiritual needs such as grief, despair, anger, et cetera, as well as resources that they have to bring to bear.

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Chaplain Palliative care Palliate Social worker 188

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

It was started by a social worker who really saw some gaps in care with those at end-of-life, particularly those with chronic long-term illness, having important conversations. What the social workers are … Eric: Yeah. Beth: From a hospice standpoint, we obviously have the nursing support, social work chaplaincy.

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