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Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

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When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. Our last podcast was with Laura Petrillo in 2018 – 5 years ago seems ancient history – though many of the points still apply today (e.g. Goldilocks zone).

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Intentionally Interprofessional Care: DorAnne Donesky, Michelle Milic, Naomi Saks, & Cara Wallace

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social worker, chaplain), everyone should be able to ask a question or two about spiritual concerns, social concerns, or physical concerns. In 2018, survey data revealed that only 41% of survey adult practices had the full complement of funded core team members, which is up from 25% of 2016. But how about you!

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

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The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. Eric: Well, what are the odds that two family members focus on a similar topic and do research together? laughter] Alex: We love the family theme.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

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Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. Michele: The article was 2018, but I think Bonnie read the article more recently. In many cases, the families were the victims of the crime. Michele: Yep.

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Potentially Unsafe Low-evidence Treatments: Adam Marks, Laura Taylor, & Jill Schneiderhan

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Daneila Lamas wrote about this issue in the New York Times this week -after we recorded – in her story, a family requested an herbal infusion for their dying mother via feeding tube. Jill Schneiderhan, a family medicine and integrative medicine doc, helps us think through this. Ivermectin to treat cancer. Stem cell treatments.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

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What she called total pain, physical, psychosocial, and spiritual, and she started addressing it. Raj: 40 years later in 2018, they got together at Astana, the then capital of Kazakhstan, and brought out another resolution, which ask member countries to give control over healthcare to the community. What do you think about that?

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

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And it was really good for my mental and physicalPhysical health, obviously, but mental health really. We see our patients and our families throughout the illness trajectory into the hospital. It’s hard for your family to know. So if you are sick, I really encourage you, just take the time off.

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