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

GeriPal

And then the second one in 2015. I moved to Baltimore in 2015 and did clinical fellowship in geriatrics. I’m wondering, you talked about that patient who was really isolated and coming to the emergency room. Many people starting to talk about loneliness epidemic. Eric: How about you, Thomas?

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

Julien, let’s start off with, congratulations by the way and Lauren too, the CHEST paper that just got published on Trends in Geriatric Conditions Among Older Adults in the ICU between 1998 and 2015. Tell me a little bit, first of all, before we talk about what you found in this, why did you do this study? Alex: Bye everybody.

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

GeriPal

I think the big one for me, it was in 2015. 2015, 2016. The typical utilization of inappropriate hospitalization and emergency room and total cost of care. What we didn’t have was the payment model to deliver the comprehensive dementia care. That’s what Malaz is going to talk about. Malaz: Yeah.