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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. Jennifer Temel study did not have a social worker as part of the clinical team. So … Barbara: Yeah.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

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The person didn’t believe in the medications. But now we have older people dying of older people illnesses. We really like the community doctors to know, so those of you listening, that our patients, they’ve lost their physical freedom, but they have autonomy in terms of their medical decision-making just like anybody else.

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Sexual Function in Serious Illness: Areej El-Jawahri, Sharon Bober, and Don Dizon

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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. Eric 01:13 So we got a lot to cover today on sexuality, sexual health and serious illness. Clearly this issue is important to patients.

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