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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

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Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011. So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families. It’s since spread to over 70 VAs. SPONSOR: . Heather: Sure.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

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Summary Transcript CME Summary Many older adults lose decision-making capacity during serious illnesses, and a significant percentage lack family or friends to assist with decisions. And there are no default pathways of family or friends to rely on and no known people who could potentially represent this person from within their inner circle.

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

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Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. They didn’t feel connected to the people in their broader community.

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Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

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So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. And so I really gain that and I love the chorus words that she uses in this song.

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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

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Ryan: I started in 2011. Eric: How does it feel like for you, Ryan, since 2011, you’ve had different roles? Eric: Yeah, I love just creating the community of people who are passionate about that. Jerry: I would just add that geriatrics is an amazing community. Eric: Okay, Ryan, going to turn to you now.

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

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2011-2014 JAMDA 2020 Efficacy of Gabapentinoids: Gabapentinoids for Pain: Potential Unintended Consequences. And so there are fewer opioids going out into the community, and we’re decreasing this risk of opioid use disorder, and all of the other things that have contributed to the opioid crisis. Is that right?

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Writing for the Lay Public: Rosanne Leipzig and Louise Aronson

GeriPal

I love his just because this is a palliative care audience in the article that then turned into being mortal, New Yorker, I don’t know, circa 2011 or something. I came from a family where you didn’t write things down, somebody could find them and hold you to them or all of that kind of stuff. ” Or something.

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