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Deprescribing Super Special Part II: Podcast with Elizabeth Bayliss, Ariel Green, and Kevin McConeghy

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Liz Bayliss is Senior Investigator at Kaiser Permanente Colorado Institute for Health Research, and Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado. And why is it important when we’re caring for older adults or those with serious illness? So people could live in the community. Elizabeth: Nice to be here.

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

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Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . Unpacking characteristics of spirituality through the lens of persons of colour living with serious illness: The need for nurse-based education to increase understanding of the spiritual dimension in healthcare. It’s since spread to over 70 VAs. Bennett, C.R.,

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

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

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And that grew into a group of volunteers coming back and at least providing support groups, giving those men a place where they could talk at least. The person didn’t believe in the medications. But now we have older people dying of older people illnesses. It’s by choice, just like in the community.

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

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So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. Tell me about your illness. How did you get into this? Heather: Sure.

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

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Certainly a lot of communities we’re thinking about LA right now and the collective trauma that they’re experiencing from the fires. But I think, gosh, we enter spaces in geriatrics and palliative care that most medical people, medical providers do not. Which may not be necessarily traumatizing. So you ready?

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

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Eric 01:13 So we got a lot to cover today on sexuality, sexual health and serious illness. So we got a lot to cover on sexuality, sexual health, and serious illness. I think this is a topic we don’t talk about as much in the context of serious illness. Don, welcome to GeriPal. Don 01:11 Thank you so much.

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