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Palliative Care Pioneer: Susan Block

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Susan led the Project on Death in America’s Faculty Scholars program , used her dual training in internal medicine and psychiatry to shine a light on psychosocial aspects of palliative care, and founded the Department of Psychosocial Care at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. . That was one thing.

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

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And so even being asked, you know, like, it’s very hard for an individual to feel, to say, yes, I’ve had recurrent trauma in my life and that’s affected my mental health, my physical health, my cognitive health, et cetera. Mariah 25:13 Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration, saa.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

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As you can imagine, get referrals from healthcare workers, emergency departments, primary care, cancer care hospital, you know, internal medicine to our service. It might have to do with a sensitivity around mental health. And that’s about half of our referrals. It makes you think differently of your care.

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Plenary Abstracts at AAHPM/HPNA: Yael Schenker, Na Ouyang, Marie Bakitas

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But those parents also mentioned they would appreciate if the clinician can use different resources like connect with other braved parents or provide professional support like mental health service or therapist to talk with them, which can help them a little bit to accept that sooner. Alex 40:06 I have a question.

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

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Lingsheng (and I) recently published studies on this in JAMA Internal Medicine , and JAGS. And that has an impact, as we’ve shown in the papers, on your social health, your mental health and physical health. So I think integrating mental health into their overall health is really important.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

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I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. To Susan’s point. Older people don’t live in the Offices for the Aging. They touch every single system. I won’t even get into problem gambling.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

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And I was an internal medicine resident. We’ve seen the stigma associated with mental health. The post Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.