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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. He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life.

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The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks

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The illness narratives suffering, healing, and the human condition. .” We’re done with that, so now what we do is we encourage our friends, our colleagues, to screen for spiritual need, one or two questions that help them identify distress and help them know what to do with those, not, “Would you like to see a chaplain.”

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

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And so we worked closely with a community advisory group who, through focus groups, told us how it was that black and white individuals with serious illness had wanted to be treated. They wanted you to be respectful of their cultural beliefs and their, you know, faith beliefs that were driving their health and illness. Marie 11:03 Yes.

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

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That was January 2020. We had, you know, it was a Monday night in June of 2020. And for about five years, my mom was declining from a dementia illness, we think something Parkinsonian. We’ve got to do that. But that was. So, you know, a few weeks later, world totally shut down on us. And so we put it together.

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

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Poetry helps us grapple with our own experiences of illness. 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. To let it go. . Alex: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

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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? it was April, 2020. We’re actually lower of COVID deaths in this country than we’ve ever been since March of 2020. So really very honored to have you on here. Monica: Yeah.