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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

GeriPal

On todays podcast, weve invited Nathaniel Chin back to the GeriPal podcast to talk about what primary care needs to manage this new world of Alzheimers disease effectively. How should we screen for cognitive impairment? Who do you think we should be screening and how should we be screening them for these symptoms?

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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

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William: So ASCO decided to make a high priority this year to redo the guidelines, which were originally released in 2018. Because a lot of my colleagues, who are like transplant coordinators for example, are asking, “Can you help us better screened for which older adults would be fit enough to go for transplant? Mazie: Yes.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

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Eric: For those of you don’t know, Emmy was on our podcast back in 2018 … man, pre-COVID times. Is there a screening tool that we can use, or just questions that you ask older adults around driving safety? We and many others have tried to come up with a short, validated screening tool. Weren’t those the days?

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

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Eric: So you both published a paper in JAGS, what, 2018, ’19 looking at what happens to people? Same thing with kind of medication management. So one of the big pieces of this is that idea of a referral at a second time when they’re less overwhelmed and stressed to figure out what happened.

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

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And so the definition of advance care planning really switched in, I think, 2017, 2018, there was kind of a United States definition and then an international consensus definition. Get the hospice referral. So I’m just going to share on my screen. What are your values? So you need to do them in order.

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