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

GeriPal

We need to figure out how to create this community of palliative care social work scholars. It creates that community where you’re like, “Oh, I’m not alone. I can figure out how to provide care in this way. And I’ve got a whole community of people to support me.” ” Barbara: Right.

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

As Thor notes, capturing patient stories has face validity as positively impacting the patients who share their stories and have them documented, and for the clinicians who get to truely and deeply know their patients in far greater depth than “what brought you to the hospital?” Within the VA it’s now at 70 VA hospitals.

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Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. I thought I was going to be a professor or educator, decided I didn’t like that. Within the VA it’s now at 70 VA hospitals. She was a heart failure patient. And here she was with me today. Alex: Yeah.

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

GeriPal

And we often do, as healthcare providers, care for people who are going through traumatic events, through just being sick in the hospital or a home or dying at home. Certainly a lot of communities we’re thinking about LA right now and the collective trauma that they’re experiencing from the fires. Kate 41:32 Yeah.

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

GeriPal

Alex 00:06 We are delighted to welcome back Areej El-Jawahri, who’s an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who specializes in blood cancers. And that really is what prompted me to get certified as a sexual education provider. Alex 00:03 This is Alex Smith. Eric 00:04 And Alex, who do we have with us today?

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