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, for some folks, thinking about a joint venture may be a new term. We see here ACO REACH and some of those different terms. Davis: Yes, I’m glad to do that.

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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. So that’s something that I think about in terms of who delivers the intervention. It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions.

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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

AUGUST 25, 2022

Thus, they have little in the way of long term vision for hospices, instead focused on cutting costs and maximizing profits. . She’s Professor and Vice Chair for Research at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine. Melissa: It’s a broad term that can mean a number of things.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Acknowledging that the most sensitive terms shift over time, what terms are they using today and why? We also learn that the term stakeholder , so common in research, should be avoided for its early usage as White colonialists staked out land taken from Native American peoples. We talk in particular about: Terminology.

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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

APRIL 4, 2024

Should we abandon the term, “comfort measures?” 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. Laurie: Yeah, I think that’s why I like to have emphasized that these discussions should be not in medical terms. Do the other.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

That setting has had the greatest impact on my mind and heart, but my experiences in home-based primary care, hospice in the home, skilled care and long-term custodial care have enabled me to further develop my professional skillset. The question for me is why wouldn’t it? How can we promote this?”

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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. It’s been around for a while. When should I think of one?

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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. Does the term need to change or… Juliet: Ongoing debate.

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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. Big randomized control study that came out. David: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

What’s the right terms? But the term psychedelics, or psychedelic medicines, is certainly a more common term and more generally accepted than hallucinogens these days. What was the term again? Brian: It is different, people use different terms. First of all, what should I call this topic? Eric: Yeah.

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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

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

And there’s a psycho jargon term for this. Keri: And I think that is first- Dani: Oh, do you know the psychological term for that? 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. Dani: No clues. Alex: Yeah.

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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

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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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

Randomized trials of ACE units date back to 1996 when Seth Landefeld and colleagues published a study in NEJM showing that they improve basic activities of daily living at discharge and can reduce the frequency of discharge to long-term care institutions. And also to have those folks proactively assessing and addressing geriatric syndromes.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

So we know that when we cultivate illness and prognostic awareness, patients make more informed decisions about their care, both in terms of their medical care, but in terms of their life decisions and their priorities and their values. And those two constructs are closely aligned in the aspects related to coping.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

These interesting, unusual or groundbreaking deals could signal what’s to come in 2023 and help shape the hospice market’s long-term future. In terms of private equity hospice investments, 2022 was something of an anomaly, with lower deal volume than prior years. Optum to pick up LHC Group.

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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. But in terms of communication training, I’ve been fortunate to do a lot of communication training through a couple courses here at Harvard. They’re really great, the palliative care social worker and chaplain.

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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

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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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

All of that really had to be revamped in terms of opioid safety. 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.

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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. And as Bob says, there are many who would prefer a consensual family, and I use that term very broadly, process to make decisions. Welcome back, Rebecca. Sean: I did, I did.

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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

AUGUST 24, 2023

And so I was hardwired to be thinking and looking at the world in terms of a DSM kind of lens. We went to the literature and found that dignity was a highly politicized term, and it was used in a variety of ways to basically mean whatever people wanted it to mean. But it’s important in terms of what it does between your ears.

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

Anyway, long story short, I did a neurology residency, which I learned an incredible amount, but there was some things that were missing for me in terms of going beyond the localizing the lesion, talking more about behavioral aspects and thinking more a little bit about the person and what they were going through. But something with behavior.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

Can you say more about how you think your father shows up in you and what that relationship meant in terms of the work that you do now? We have 13 social workers, many more social workers than doctors. Rajagopal appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And thinking about prognosis, not necessarily in terms of time, but in terms of thinking about function. And I think social workers, advanced practitioners, nurses, really feel comfortable giving functional prognoses more so than time-based prognoses. It’s just, there’s a lot of confounding of the terms.

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GeriPal

JUNE 23, 2022

Today we talk with Mara Schonberg, who has been tackling this issue from a variety of angles: building an index to estimate prognosis for older adults, writing about how to talk with older adults about stopping screening, a randomized trial of her decision aid , and how to talk to older adults about their long term prognosis.

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Chicago Caregiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Suddenly, Wetzel, an older woman with a disability, was in need a place where she herself could receive long-term care. The Care Plan also serves Black and Brown communities, says Boyd, who, prior to founding The Care Plan, spent more than a decade in various leadership roles at geriatric care facilities in Chicago.

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

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

I’m really comfortable with whatever term people want to use. But luckily, Anne Kelly, our social worker, was in the room with me and said the magic thing that just was the right thing to say. Is this really a futile effort, so to speak, in terms of dictating our wishes to those we love? What should I call this?

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Tom: So we did this study because patients who go through the stem cell transplant process face a lot of misery in terms of physical symptoms, psychological distress, anxiety, depression, and even a risk of PTSD afterwards, sort of like a medical trauma, you might think of it. I’m going to go to stem cell transplants.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

Lauren: In terms of the quality ratings, so if you come to my talk tomorrow, I have a talk on hospice quality. I mean, in Los Angeles County, the for-profits are a disaster with some of the longer term, like VITAS, being exceptions to that rule. What is the role of the physicians, the nurses, the social workers in hospice?

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

And my interest in this is that I think about, having been a clinical social worker for 35 years in the space of palliative and oncology care, is how does that impact how we choose to say what we do with our patients and families? And if you read his story, you’ll be so moved by it in terms of the multiple levels of loss.

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Home Care Pulse

MAY 16, 2023

And to do that, we’re joined by Brett Ringold, vice President of a long-term companion, and Gary Bachrach, executive Director of Business Development Home Care Services at the Joint Commission. Today, almost half of a long-term companion’s. Today, almost half of a long-term companion’s.

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