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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

GeriPal

Noelle Marie 01:24 I think it really speaks a lot to my own personal journey and I’m pretty sure a lot of trans and gender diverse individuals also resonate with and it really speaks about our transition, celebrating our authentic selves, how society views us and how we view ourselves when we stand in front of a mirror.

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

GeriPal

By 2015 that number increased to 4% of US adults. 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. But also just in my limited practice, and I’m a relatively new provider, I’ve just noticed that pain management is so individualized.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. And the nurse can’t dose it, they have to individually dose it.

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AGS Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use: A Podcast with Todd Semla and Mike Steinman

GeriPal

There’s always questions, are we going to update the alternatives list that we did for the 2015? And it sounds like there was this alternatives list from 2015, and you’re considering maybe. Eric: Or another good example is like for individuals with dementia. It orexins and the melatonin receptor agonists?

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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 think some of that is from some of my thinking about maybe what I can potentially think about with the individual to support them. Many people starting to talk about loneliness epidemic. Eric: How about you, Thomas?

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Is 2023 the Year for OTC Naloxone?

FDA Law Blog

Many states already have standing orders that allow for the dispensing of naloxone without an individual prescription and other public health initiatives to increase naloxone access. February 2023 Advisory Committee for NNS Rx-to-OTC Switch Narcan Nasal Spray was originally approved by FDA in November 2015 (NDA 208411).

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

Heather: I do Alex, and I’m so happy to have this song request, it’s called The Eye by Brandi Carlile, which comes from a quite old 2015 album called The Firewatcher’s Daughter. You would love this because in that story that was in that patient CHR was a particular song that had meant a lot to this individual.