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

GeriPal

We leveraged data collected as part of the national survey on drug use and health, which examines people substance use behaviors and whether they meet diagnostic criteria for substance use disorder, based on how they describe their substance use in the past 12 months. But the cancer specific databases just don’t have this information.

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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. So if you think about dementia, it’s on the intersection of aging stigma and mental health stigma. You come over to the clinic, you go to the hospital, you provide service, and the insurance and you negotiate how much you’re going to get paid.

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

And now what we have all been waiting for, our keynote speaker on today’s theme of mental health. An inspiring leader and educator of the next generation of physicians, Doctor Wible has been named one of the 2015 Women Leaders in Medicine and the “Physicians Guardian Angel.” I give you Dr. Pamela Wible. To be real.

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