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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

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Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. If I remember correctly, I think the average was, people were screening positive for depression in this study. David: Exactly.

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The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks

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Naomi: Well, I have a special place of not being a doctor within this great group of people. ” That’s not a spiritual screen. That makes sure all you find out is whether they like chaplains, know what one is, and how they feel about, so we teach people two or three sentences to screen for distress. Pain Manag Nurs.

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

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We also explored several questions with them, including how to define trauma, its prevalence in older adults, the impact of past traumatic experiences, the potential triggers of trauma screening, and the application of trauma-informed principles in clinical practice. Eric 04:55 Does it need an experience directly? Mariah 23:02 Right.

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

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So has a special resonance for, I think, a lot of people who are Tragically H ip fans. That was January 2020. We had, you know, it was a Monday night in June of 2020. It was my first concert without my parents. Alex 01:54 And you’ve been requesting, I think, the Tragically Hip previously, but we got denied. But that was.

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Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy

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Big heat waves in England in 2020, 2,224 excess deaths in the obits over the age of 65. I actually wonder though, since we’re on a GeriPal broadcast, I think that people are under emphasizing the special risk of older people. Ruth: That’s not prevention, that’s screening. What does that actually look like?

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Poetry & Palliative Care: Podcast with Mike Rabow and Redwing Keyssar

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I had planned to start doing in-person poetry sessions with cancer patients at the beginning of 2020. Redwing: I did the first week of March in 2020, and then as we all know, the world shut down and changed. So beginning, literally April 1, 2020 until now I started with one poetry recession a week. Alex: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

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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.