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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

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Janet: So as Julie Childers often says in the same way that as palliative care clinicians we can take a first pass to address distress from depression without being necessarily mental health counseling specialists or a psychiatrist. They have poor pain, they have poor function, but you also can’t clearly make a diagnosis.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

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But what happened when we finally… When he did get the diagnosis, it all fell into place. So if you think about dementia, it’s on the intersection of aging stigma and mental health stigma. The typical utilization of inappropriate hospitalization and emergency room and total cost of care. You get double whammy.