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

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Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. In their communities? If I remember correctly, I think the average was, people were screening positive for depression in this study.

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The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks

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There’s so many things that are happening, but I think we’re still just learning as a community to bring all of the professions together, all of our wisdom with the wisdom of the people to really learn, how do we actually address that? ” That’s not a spiritual screen. Pain Manag Nurs. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004.

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

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So we take that science and we apply it to something that’s very messy and chaotic, like a human being or a community or a population. I think it started off from a need, a hunger in the community. There’s obviously a lot of flaws in the healthcare system. A love letter kind of back to my community.

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Plenary Abstracts at AAHPM/HPNA: Yael Schenker, Na Ouyang, Marie Bakitas

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We covered some of our questions on the podcast, others you can ponder on your own or in your journal clubs, including: Maries tele/video palliative care intervention was tailored/refined with the help of a community advisory board. Eric 04:27 Yeah, I gotta ask about the community advisor. So I don’t want my Marin community to.

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

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We also explored several questions with them, including how to define trauma, its prevalence in older adults, the impact of past traumatic experiences, the potential triggers of trauma screening, and the application of trauma-informed principles in clinical practice. Eric 04:55 Does it need an experience directly? Mariah 23:02 Right.

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Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy

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Leslie Wharton is a leader in the 26,000 member grassroots organization Elders Climate Action , which organizes older adults to create communities engaged in making a difference at local, state, and national levels. Big heat waves in England in 2020, 2,224 excess deaths in the obits over the age of 65.

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Poetry & Palliative Care: Podcast with Mike Rabow and Redwing Keyssar

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I had planned to start doing in-person poetry sessions with cancer patients at the beginning of 2020. Redwing: I did the first week of March in 2020, and then as we all know, the world shut down and changed. So beginning, literally April 1, 2020 until now I started with one poetry recession a week. Alex: Mm-hmm (affirmative).