GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary Last week we talked about a trial of a nurse and social worker outpatient palliative care intervention published in JAMA. He’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc/researcher in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. Ashwin Kotwal reports receiving a research grant from Humana Inc.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

Alex: We are delighted to welcome to the GeriPal Podcast, Kellie Flood, who is a geriatrician at the University of Alabama Birmingham and associate Chief Quality Officer for Geriatrics and Care Transitions. And also to have those folks proactively assessing and addressing geriatric syndromes. Kellie: Thank you so much.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Alex: Also returning Rebecca Sudore, who is professor of medicine at the UCSF in the division of geriatrics, and is a geriatric and palliative care doctor. So I think that really questioning what we do is a good thing that routes to improved patient care. So I got the white board and I wrote advance care planning.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

So take a listen and if you are interested in learning more, check out these wonderful links: Harvey’s latest book is called, Dignity in Care: The Human Side of Medicine Intensive Caring: Reminding Patients They Matter Michael J. So I think about social workers, pastoral care professionals, like spiritual care clinicians.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

We want to do meaningful work and so we want to know that the conversations we have impact patient care. And that kind of prognostic information can be just as valuable, really, to patients and their families planning as time-based information. The post Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

In the US, geriatrics “grew up” as an academic profession with a heavy research base. Clinical growth of geriatrics programs has lagged academic research, despite the rapid aging of the population. . Palliative care, in contrast, saw explosive growth in US hospitals. You work with who’s there and they, they deliver care.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

If you do good quality patient care, I believe the other naturally follows. Joan Tino’s Group a month ago published a great study looking at care or caregiver, primary caregiver survey data. What is the role of the physicians, the nurses, the social workers in hospice? I give my life to patient care.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

Doulas, When, when, when I look back at my career, the first five years of my nursing was patient care. Those five years, those patients taught me what dying was like. You need to, and, and to say, well, you know, you can talk to the social worker anytime or you can talk to our chaplain anytime.

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Home Care Pulse

MAY 16, 2023

So before we became accredited by, with the Joint Commission in their home care program, we were already receiving referrals from local physicians, nurses, social workers, discharge planners, at a number of different healthcare systems in the area. You know, we improve the quality of patient care by, by following that patient.

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