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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

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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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.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2025

I think in the era when I trained in the 2008 timeframe, you know, it was very much just like somebody has pain, they need opioids, they have pain, they have more pain, they need lots more opioids. For those individuals, how do you think about that? And that’s something that I’ve had to learn. Pearls tips?

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Next, we talk with James Deardorff about whether we can accurately predict nursing home level of care in community-dwelling older adults with dementia. This is a particularly interesting topic because we know that individuals with dementia have a high rate of entering nursing home. Kara 10:12 Yep. Why did you do that paper, James?

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

But what happened when we finally… When he did get the diagnosis, it all fell into place. Eric: … you’re getting paid for individual encounters, not going to people’s homes, not being paid for all of the additional support that’s needed for comprehensive cancer care. Malaz: Correct. Diane: Yeah.

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