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

GeriPal

It’s a first Department of Health Social Work in a medical school in the country. Again, it happened because the dean of the medical school at that time said, “We were teaching interprofessional education and we were quite successful with it and we’ve been doing it for years.” That, to me, is the goal.

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

GeriPal

So this is about two and a half, three years out from leukemia diagnosis. And that really is what prompted me to get certified as a sexual education provider. A lot of people, and we have some data to say that you might have distress, but sex is not one of the reasons for your distress when you’re first diagnosed.

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