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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

GeriPal

They get some training in their master’s program on research and they get some training certainly on writing papers, but then you get into clinical practice and it’s like a language. And sometimes social workers feel intimidated by it, too. Barbara: You do. And we have to have a different funding stream, frankly.

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

GeriPal

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. You know, she had created some work in the virtual space.

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

GeriPal

We sort of set physicians, or I would say we set medical providers up a little bit when we say, you really should us ask, but then we don’t give them the resources or the sense of training about what to do next. And so we have basic treatments for these issues that we train oncology clinicians to bring up in clinic practice.

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