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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

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She directs UCSF MERI’s patient, family, and clinician support with classes and consultation on resiliency, well-being, and grief. Alex: First three words would be, family and history and diversity. Judy Long, MDiv, BCC , palliative care chaplain and educator at UCSF and caregiver. Anne: Is there a movement? I love them.

Community 101
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Surgical Communication: A Podcast with Gretchen Schwarze, Justin Clapp and Alexis Colley

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Instead, what if your surgeon told you that the operation she was discussing could help with only 4 things: live longer, feel better, prevent disability, or obtain a diagnosis? What I need to navigate with that patient and their family, is it valuable to you? And when they talk to patients and families, it’s a pretty easy sell.

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Health and Wealth Shocks: Lauren Hunt, Rebecca Rodin, Tsai-Chin Cho

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We focus on function and mortality because these are outcomes that really are important to patients and families. And it was her conceptual, like incorporation of functional decline, some measure of functional decline along with a serious illness diagnosis that you’re utilizing here. What is your function? And do you die?

Illness 93
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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

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Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease. So I don’t know how clinically meaningful that week difference was to families. I’m workshopping what I’m going to say at the “Congress du caretive” [speaking in French]. So I think that was one of the key eligibility criteria. English or spanish speakers.

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Poetry & Palliative Care: Podcast with Mike Rabow and Redwing Keyssar

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Mike Rabow shares his award winning poem about coming out to the world about his diagnosis with multiple sclerosis. . Links to Redwing’s poetry workshops: Food for Thought Poetry for Resiliency. Alex: It sounds like that might be a part of the workshops that you run. Redwing: That’s what we do in these workshops.