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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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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. Something about it wasn’t necessarily right in terms of her desire to be always with us. Carla: Thanks so much.

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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. 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. It’s what happens in lots of different fields, including geriatrics.

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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. I think we struggled with that.

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Negotiation and Dispute Resolution: A Podcast with Lee Lindquist and Alaine Murawski

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Training Hospitalists in Negotiations to Address Conflicts with Older Adults around Their Social Needs. Geriatrics. Alex: We are delighted to welcome back Lee Lindquist, who’s a geriatrician and chief of geriatrics at Northwestern. You can speak a little bit about what you’ve learned in social work school.

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

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And finally, too, as a new researcher and postdoctoral fellow, I’m hoping that the best is yet to come for palliative care, research, and work. So, you actually just got a first author publication, JAMA, looking at a nursing and social work intervention in heart failure, ILD, and… What was the third again?

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Who should get Palliative Care? Kate Courtright

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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. . What is a pragmatic trial for those who aren’t familiar with that term? That’s the new hot term. Kate: Yeah.