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GeriPal Special: Hopes and Worries for Hospice and Palliative Care

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Attendee 5: That we are so integrated into the very fabric of healthcare that it’s a no-brainer in every single discipline because you know what? We deepen ourselves into the fabric of care and we make healthcare work for people who are seriously ill. We are not an extra layer of support. We are actually the integrator.

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

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Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. Barbara: Oh, I think it was 2013. And so when you have that, that’s so good for the family.

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

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Eric 01:04 So we’re going to be talking about transgender health in older adults and those with serious illness. This is like, back in 2013, and I joined the faculty at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. So when I joined Sinai In 2013, I was in a different form at that time. And great to meet Jace on here.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

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This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. Alex: What happens when people survive? Lauren: Yeah. Lauren: Yeah.

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What is Death? Winston Chiong and Sean Aas

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Patients families want to know whether their loved one has died. Healthcare provide. Healthcare companies. And one would be when care is continuing a case where people believe that the patients died, or oftentimes, this is also a source of controversy between families and clinicians. That’s one key interested party.

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What We Now Know About COVID Prevention and Treatment: A Podcast with Monica Gandhi

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Eric: All right, before we start talking about COVID in older adults and those with serious illness, do you have a song request for Alex? I’m wondering if we can start off with thinking about the prevention of COVID in older adults and those with serious illness and then potentially the management of them. Eric: I loved all that.

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Ageism and Elections: Louise Aronson and Ken Covinsky

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We talk to patients and we talk to families, and we don’t, like, base it on what we read in the media. And in certain professions, you may have to disqualify some perfectly able people like piles in order to keep out a plurality that may pose risk via illness, you know, incapacity, etcetera, as the odds get so big. You know, 95.

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