GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

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. And so when you have that, that’s so good for the family. That’s so good for us.

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IT Families Family Clinic 101

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

In many cases, the families were the victims of the crime. They didn’t have a mentor, a financial provider, all of those things. There are clinics. But if the services that they require aren’t able to be provided within, they have Health Net as their insurance, so we contract with specialists in the community.

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Families Family IT Community 131

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Sharon Bober, clinical psychologist at DFCI, notes that clinicians can get caught in an anxiety cycle, in which they are afraid to ask, don’t ask, then have increased anxiety about not asking. And it actually came up during a clinical encounter that I had. So this is about two and a half, three years out from leukemia diagnosis.

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 129