Chicago Caregiving

JANUARY 3, 2024

Back home, he reached out to DuPage County, found local nonprofit Metropolitan Family Services , and also researched geriatric care management services in his sister’s city. Having an independent social worker do an assessment for stress helped make it real.

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Hospice Promise

MARCH 31, 2022

We’re ending #NationalSocialWorkMonth on a high note with a spotlight on Ana, MSW, one of our lovely Social Workers! Ana has been a Social Worker for three years now. She obtained her Master’s in Social Work and has been with Hospice Promise since finishing her schooling! Employee Spotlight: Ana.

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Chicago Caregiving

JUNE 29, 2023

Step One Learn about what’s going on Start with a clear understanding of your loved one’s medical condition and care team, says Julie Fohrman, a gerontologist who founded North Shore Geriatric Care Management in Lake Forest. Employers — yours or your loved one’s — may offer caregiver support, such as access to social workers.

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Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2022

Do you have a doctor and a social worker that can work on, for instance, Medicaid eligibility. I had my standard two times a week nursing, one time a week social worker, once a month chaplain, once every other month music therapist. Our physicians are generally uncomfortable with those conversations.

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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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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

Nikki Davis: I’m a nurse practitioner and have been working in geriatrics and palliative care for about 21 years now. Anthony Spano: We are very lucky to have Nikki Davis on stage, so I wanted to just open up and give her the chance to tell us a little bit about herself.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

I’d hazard that maybe half the patients I care for at the intersection of geriatrics and palliative care fall in the gray zone. Alex: And a voice that will be very familiar to our listeners, a dynamic and enthusiastic social worker in palliative care at the San Francisco VA, Anne Kelly. Welcome back, Lynn. Lynn: Thank you.

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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. It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions. For inquiries or to apply, please contact gayle.kojimoto@ucsf.edu. Eric: And lastly, LaVera.

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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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AlayaCare

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

You could also sort referral sources into categories, such as: Government agencies Other healthcare professionals Senior and geriatric advisors Miscellaneous other sources Are there places outside of the home that you can think of as potential partnership opportunities? One example could be a local house cleaning business or a pharmacy.

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AlayaCare

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Senior and geriatric advisors. The social workers and nurses you interact with may get busy, and they may also interact with your competitors. One example could be a local house cleaning business or a pharmacy. You could also sort referral sources into categories, such as: Government agencies. Other healthcare professionals.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

They didn’t come up in geriatrics very much. And we see that too in geriatrics. Alex and Eric, both of you attend in geriatrics. The post Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. It was a lot of fun.

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Chicago Caregiving

MARCH 9, 2022

TV volume wars can be daunting, but the war to lower the volume can be won with the aid of technology, says Ann Hollander, founder of Options for Aging , a geriatric care management company based in Wilmette. It reduces socialization and activity levels, which often leads to depression and other health problems including dementia.”.

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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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Chicago Caregiving

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

“If they are healthy and active, you have some time, though the process still should not be put off too long , as things can change in one’s 70s, 80s, and 90s,” says Christopher D’Agostino, DO, director of geriatric services and chief medical officer at Acension Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital in Hoffman Estates.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

David Bekelman conducted a RCT of a nurse and social worker telephone intervention (ADAPT intervention) for people with heart failure and lung disease (COPD or ILD). Alex: Yeah, two psychologists talking about psychological issues in palliative care and geriatrics. Were these palliative care trained nurses and social workers?

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Chicago Caregiving

APRIL 20, 2022

The pandemic has been an especially difficult and confusing time for seniors, says Erika Hutz, DO, a specialist in geriatric and internal medicine at Swedish Medical Group. To stay on top of medical and mental health issues, Blankemeier recommends older adults: Limit social media consumption to avoid taking in too much negative information.

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American In-Home Care

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Geriatric Care Specialists. Social workers, care coordinators and case managers have experience and special training in working with older adults who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. This may be a geriatrician, a neurologist and /or a psychiatrist.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Why does CHAP have a national medical director, registered nurse and social worker on staff who all specialize in hospice? These organizations got together to bring national experts together and to say, “Why during this unprecedented time of human longevity have evidence-based geriatric health care models not taken root?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Eric and I are joined today on this podcast by Anne Kelly palliative care social worker to discuss these issues with Liz. Alex: And joining us as she has many times, Anne Kelly is a social worker at the San Francisco VA. At the end we also pay tribute to Randy Curtis, senior author on this paper and mentor to Liz.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

She’s Professor and Vice Chair for Research at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine. Alex: We’re delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Krista Harrison, who is a Health Policy Researcher, an Associate Professor of Medicine, UCSF Division of Geriatrics.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

You’re a senior author on this article in JPSM, where you interviewed some geriatricians and other people caring for older adults, nurse practitioners, social workers, et cetera. I think this is actually bread and butter geriatrics. You interviewed some geriatricians. And so, that’s what we learned from them.

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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. Good to see you. Ashwin, welcome back. Ashwin: Thanks for having me.

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Pallimed

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

IF you can figure out how public health guidance impacts a person in potentially negative ways, then you can acknowledge that (and sometimes work to mitigate with help of social workers, etc). And then they may be more open to hearing you speak the truth about prevention. Don't expect them to change their mind instantly.

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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, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

And the anger was… I was the one delivering the bad news, but the anger was very much directed at a social worker on our service who’s female. But sometimes, like with that patient with laryngeal cancer I just mentioned, I partnered up and did joint visits with my social worker with him.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Alex: And we are delight to welcome Lindsey Yourman, who is a geriatrician, she’s a longtime friend and mentee, and is now a peer and is a key component of the ePrognosis working group and helped originate the ideas that led to ePrognosis and she’s now San Diego County’s Chief Geriatrics Officer. Welcome to GeriPal, Lindsey.

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

To Brian’s point, that we are also integrating chaplains, social workers, it’s not necessarily two psychotherapists. The post Psychedelics – reasons for caution: Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, Theora Cimino appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

Attendee 14: I am most hopeful that as palliative caregivers, we will continue to authentically welcome the voices of our interprofessional team members, chaplains, social workers, and so we have true interprofessional collaboration. Attendee 15: And so I’m most hopeful for our younger generation so that I can retire.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

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. Negotiation Training for Case Managers to Improve Older Adult Acceptance of Services.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

” Or for a social worker, “Where are we going to discharge them to?” The post Black/African American Caregivers of Older Adults Living with Dementia: Fayron Epps and Karen Moss appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. “What is wrong, just right here?”

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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. They’re really great, the palliative care social worker and chaplain. Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

We talk about why it’s so hard with Abby Rosenberg (chief of PC at DFCI and Boston Childrens), Nick Purol (clinical social worker at DFCI and Boston Childrens), Daniel Eison (pediatric PC doc and co-host of PediPal). Aren’t young adults so much harder than the geriatric patients we take care of? Abby: Thank you.

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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. I was on service and I had a geriatrics fellow and a palliative care fellow. ” And this is late in the year, geriatrics and palliative care fellow said POLST.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

An estimated 5 million to 8 million older adults in the United States have one or more mental health conditions, according to research from 2018 supplement to the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS), with projections that this number will triple over the next three decades.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

So I was really excited to bring in a couple of co-editors who were young and hip, and at the cutting edge of palliative care now, along with my collaborators: the social workers, the psychiatrist, a chaplain to really make this book relevant for now. All of that really had to be revamped in terms of opioid safety.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Every member of the team, even for me, for whatever reason, that switched me from focusing on trying to be in pulmonary critical care to become actually a geriatrician, choose the geriatric fellowship. And these care navigator, they can be community health worker with just 12 years of education. They can be a- Diane: Social worker.

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