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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

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Barbara highlights social workers’ inherent leadership qualities and tasks us to consider whether our own team and organizational structures are allowing for optimal social work engagement and influence. So in preparation for this, I read a couple articles about social work leadership in palliative care.

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Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

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end of life care and advance care planning) to more geriatrics focused (e.g. AlexSmithMD (still on Twitter at present). Alex: And we’re also delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast Kenny Lam, who’s assistant professor of medicine at UCSF in the Division of Geriatrics. staff training in person centered care).

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Involving the inner circle: Emily Largent, Anne Rohlfing, Lynn Flint & Anne Kelly

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I’d hazard that maybe half the patients I care for at the intersection of geriatrics and palliative care fall in the gray zone. Invoking this principle, Emily argues for an expanded role for patients in the gray area and their inner circle working together along a spectrum of cooperative decision-making.

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

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In addition to being a palliative and hospice RN, she is the Executive Director for Goodwin Hospice , a large non-profit hospice that added end-of-life doula care to their services in collaboration with Jane and John’s doula organization, Present for You. What the social workers are … Eric: Yeah. Jane: Thank you for having me.

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

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We’re also delight to welcome Carla Perissinotto, who is a geriatrician palliative care doc at UCSF in the division of geriatrics. I moved to Baltimore in 2015 and did clinical fellowship in geriatrics. Thomas: But the person did screen and used a little bit of the and Social Network Scale and the UCLA Loneliness Scale.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

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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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Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

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So I allow family members to be present if they want them to. I think we also lean into, I’ve learned so much from my social work colleagues and/or my spiritual care provider colleagues because they do really lean into some of these other aspects of the who, not just the physical. That’s fine.