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Amyloid Antibodies and the Role of the Geriatrician: Nate Chin, Sharon Brangman, and Jason Karlawish

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The outlook on amyloid antibodies are looking brighter though in 2023. There is a lot to digest with these draft clinical guidelines but the big change from the 2018 guideline is moving Alzheimers to a biological diagnosis (biomarker evidence only) not just for a research framework but now from a clinical one. Eric: PET scans.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

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We would drill down on the tenth differential diagnosis of medium vessel vasculitis, and then we would discharge them back out to the streets. Why was I spending all this time figuring out the detailed differential diagnosis of these obscure diseases when we weren’t actually attending to what people really needed?

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

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This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. I had the tenacity and education to try to figure this out. This money allow me to take care of the caregiver, educate them, support them.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

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The other way to think about who’s eligible… I talked about coming at this from a diagnosis point of view, people with certain conditions that you need to be hospitalized for. And then, it did, finally, come to an end, but the hospital-at-home community was able to educate policymakers. And it went on for a while.

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