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

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Those are all things that could dramatically be a major health shock for an individual. But we all know intuitively as clinicians and as people in the community, we see people have these events and then we see them have a much faster decline after that. In the community? Alex 14:28 Yeah, yeah. Eric 20:32 Are these people in the.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

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laugher] Alex: And, so we put them together and I feel like there’s been a real coming together of the Geriatrics and Palliative care communities and sort of cross-fertilization between the two and efforts between the two. So, I’m super proud of being able to reach out to people in rural communities. Lynn: Great.

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Bisphosphonates for Osteoporosis: Podcast with James Deardorff and Sei Lee

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When we have a medication with up front harms and downstream benefits, it’s critical that we consider the time to benefit, or how long it will take an individual to benefit from a test or treatment. For individuals with a life expectancy less than the time to benefit, the up front harms outweigh the downstream benefits. . James: Yeah.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

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Eric: So we’re going to be talking about dementia and considerations around surgery for individuals with dementia. But we know that 30% of all decedents who are Medicare beneficiaries either die from dementia or have an existing diagnosis of dementia, which is something we talk about quite often, Joel and I. It was Remember Me.