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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

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When was that, 2010? Eric: 2010. And for people with dementia and their caregivers, who both feel very devalued in the social system, support systems, their communities, the medical system. Somehow or other he talked this medical system into allowing him to develop the Alzheimer’s Center of Excellence.

Community 101
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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

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Jennifer: Yeah, so I think as all the listeners of this podcast know, and I know he did do a podcast with you guys when he was still able to verbally communicate, with Randy Curtis’ diagnosis of, I keep wanting to say AML, ALS. And so I went into medical school wanting to cure cancer. I have oncology on the brain.

Illness 110
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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

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Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

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Summary Transcript Summary In the early 1990’s, California Medical Facility (CMF) created one of the nation’s first licensed hospice units inside a prison. Alex: We are in the California Medical Facility and we will ask our guest about that. I’ve known Michele a long time, since the Joint Medical Program. Michele: Yep.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

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Chris 07:41 Yeah, it’s a really interesting thing, because the 2010 article was solving the problem of, hey, send us patients, we promise we won’t kill them. Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease. We did not just rely on a physical symptom measure, which many of our colleagues are doing. All of this is.