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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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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. How should we care for unrepresented individuals in inpatient and outpatient settings? Why not use the older term unbefriended? Is that fair?

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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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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? And that’s what gets me excited for our future, is being able to interact with those individuals and attract them early and keep them hooked, I think is one of Jerry and my story. How long ago?

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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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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. I also heard that if you look at all individuals in the US, about 4% of individuals are taking one of the gabapentinoids, 10% over 65. These are families who are in distress. Nisha: Both of them are generic, yeah.

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Writing for the Lay Public: Rosanne Leipzig and Louise Aronson

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And then I feel like when I’m in clinic I’m helping individuals, and you only have so much time to help so many people. 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. When I write, I learn a ton from that.

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