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

GeriPal

The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. 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). I know we’re talking about primary palliative care interventions.

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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

GeriPal

Our experts include Katie Fitzgerald Jones (palliative nurse practitioner and doctoral student at Boston College), Zachary Sager (palliative care physician at the Boston VA and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute), and Janet Ho (physician at UCSF in addiction medicine and palliative care). Article on buprenorphine in the elderly.

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Normalcy, Introspection, & the Experience of Serious Illness: Bill Gardner, Juliet Jacobsen, and Brad Stuart

GeriPal

He studies the mental health system in the ways in which it has failed children and adolescents, and he writes about his experience with cancer in a blog, the Billgardner.substack.com, Billgardner, one word. I was asking about what was going to be special about the trip or if they were going to do things with their family.

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

We welcome all professions, including but not limited to physicians, chaplains, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, case managers, administrators, and pharmacists. And I think reducing health disparities has been something that’s important in my work. It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

So if you think about dementia, it’s on the intersection of aging stigma and mental health stigma. He created fee for service, special fee for depression. And these care navigator, they can be community health worker with just 12 years of education. They can be nurse if you want to. You get double whammy.

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

And now what we have all been waiting for, our keynote speaker on today’s theme of mental health. I’ve met and helped hundreds of nurse practitioners, PAs, physicians recapture this bliss and I want all of you to feel it too. I think it’s a label that people turn to because of mental health stigma.

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