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Should you have a coach? Greg Pawlson, Beth Griffiths, & Vicky Tang

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Today we learn more about coaching from 3 coaches: Greg Pawlson, coach and former president of the American Geriatrics Society, Vicky Tang, geriatrician-researcher at UCSF and coach , and Beth Griffiths, primary care internist at UCSF and coach. We address: What is coaching? How does it differ from therapy? From Beth Israel and UNC.

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

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We are also joined by Diah Martina, a palliative care doctor trying to grow palliative care in Indonesia, in part by starting a palliative care podcast in Indonesian (she was observing today). People had to be in the top 20th percentile of risk for being hospitalized or dying in the next year. David: Yeah, yeah, I agree.

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

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Despite these substantial needs, specialized palliative care beyond hospice is rare in nursing homes. Furthermore, only about half of nursing home residents nearing the end of life receive hospice care. So, how can we improve palliative care for individuals in nursing homes? What do we know about.

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Intentionally Interprofessional Care: DorAnne Donesky, Michelle Milic, Naomi Saks, & Cara Wallace

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The many arguments, theories, & approaches across settings and conditions are explored in detail in the book they edited, “ Intentionally Interprofessional Palliative Care ” (discount code AMPROMD9). Of note: these lessons apply to geriatrics, primary care, hospital medicine, critical care, cancer care, etc, etc.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

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Today we discuss: Why the study was negative for the primary (hospitalization) and all secondary outcome (e.g. Yael Shenkers negative study of primary palliative care for cancer , Randy Curtiss negative study of a Vital Talk-ish intervention , Lieve Van den Blocks negative study of primary PC in nursing homes.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

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While we like to think about how our goals and preferences will influence what that life looks like, including whether you will get potentially burdensome interventions, your fate is probably influenced more by factors like where you live and what nursing home you happen to end up in. . Who do we have with us? Ruth: Thank you. Joan: Thanks.

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Normalcy, Introspection, & the Experience of Serious Illness: Bill Gardner, Juliet Jacobsen, and Brad Stuart

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Alex: She’s also associate professor at Massachusetts General Hospital in Harvard Medical School. She was a prior guest with Rachelle Bernacki on our most listened to podcast of 2022, Should We Shift from Advanced Care Planning to Serious Illness Conversations? Alex: She is working in Sweden and researching in Sweden, in Lund.

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