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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

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After discussing screening options for substance use disorder, we go on to talk about both the treatments for it and the issues that arise. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. I mean, the simple answer is, yes, we should be screening people for substance use disorder. Katie: Yeah. So, I digress.

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The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks

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ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. The more we can notice that, the more we can actually be present for that family and actually see how they’re experiencing it. Family member, and with some chagrin- Eric: Powerful nudge. Pain Manag Nurs. 2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3. 2023.11.004.

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

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ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. And so, three years of seeing over and over people having really difficult end of life experiences in the ICU, not being able to advocate for themselves, a lot of trauma for their families, I just thought, we have to do better than this. There has to be more than this.

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Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

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Analyzing the Health and Retirement Study, she found 60% of older adults screened positive for depression in the last year of life (related study here ). ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. We saw that around 60% of people were screening positive for depression in the last month before death.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

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Summary Transcript CME Summary Many older adults lose decision-making capacity during serious illnesses, and a significant percentage lack family or friends to assist with decisions. He died in 2024. So those types of relationships, clergy, non family members, we talk about, I think cohabitating unmarried couples. Is that fair?

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

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Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. Practice-PC is an intentionally interprofessional and cutting edge year-long group continuing education course in palliative care for working professionals from all disciplines, in the Bay Area. It is a screening?

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

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ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. 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. In addition to the grab bars, we have also helped train the EMS professionals in different lenses about screening.

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