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Telehealth vs In-Person Palliative Care: A Podcast with Joseph Greer, Lynn Flint, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson

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However, lack of physical presence may make this contender struggle to land the emotional support punch that is at the very heart of palliative care. If they physically come here, it’s sort of just the natural course of things that they’ll walk into the room with the patient. Lynn, what were you doing in Covid 2020?

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

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Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Diane: Fantastic.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

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2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. You can broaden the scope of diagnoses. That started in November of 2020. Go back in your mind, November of 2020, COVID is at its peak, we don’t have vaccines quite yet. Every time we’d make a visit, he would talk about being physically restrained.

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Ageism and Elections: Louise Aronson and Ken Covinsky

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Eric Widera reminds us of the history of the Goldwater Act created by the American Psychological Association in the 1960s which states that psychiatrists should refrain from diagnosing public figures, and the American Medical Association code of ethics which likewise discourages armchair diagnosis (rule established in 2017).

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