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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

Not the most common circumstances that people with serious illness face where attention and understanding of what my goals and values are. But when we have people in rural areas of California, so we don’t know our clinical site, we go from San Francisco all the way to the Northern California border, super rural areas.

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Bisphosphonates for Osteoporosis: Podcast with James Deardorff and Sei Lee

GeriPal

This tool provides a clinical recommendation for starting/stopping medications and cancer screening based on the prognosis of the patient in front of you. And so many older adults with diagnosis of osteoporosis have never received any therapy for it. Toward the end we talk about the launch of ePrognosis’ new Time to Benefit tool.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

So when I was a resident at Cleveland Clinic, I got to see really cutting-edge technology, some of the best surgeons in the country, and perhaps in the world, operating on patients. Fifty percent have a diagnosis in their record of decedents have dementia. Eric: Mm-hmm. Eric: How about you, Samir? Joel: Yeah. Eric: Yeah.

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

GeriPal

But from our clinical work, many of us are familiar with people with dementia who experience sudden shocks to their health, think hip fracture, think hospitalization for pneumonia. Sometimes people call them health shocks, but we kind of all, like, clinically, intuitively know what these things are. Has really changed.

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