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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

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Next, we turn to Emily McDonald, the director of the Canadian Medication Appropriateness and Deprescribing Network , to discuss her study on the impact of direct-to-consumer educational brochures on gabapentin deprescribing. Additionally, clinicians participated in monthly educational sessions. We just want to educate the patients.

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

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He was an otolaryngologist and epidemiology person too, might have an appointment in geriatrics too. And there’s multiple survival analyses looking at incident dementia, and hearing loss is strong, independently associated with the time to event dementia. He is one of those superstars here.

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GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundeberg and Annie Medina-Walpole

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So if you haven’t been to this event, there is a literature review where we. So Annie Since I was appointed timekeeper. Cause they all brought their own style and they all were educational in different ways. And I love how you span an article about the chair to educate. It’s okay. Let’s go back.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

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Just out of fellowship, Naheed built a palliative care program for homeless persons called the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless (PEACH) Program. He’s the founder and leader of the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless program in Toronto, Palliative care physician at St. Naheed 07:33 Yeah.

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Surgical Communication: A Podcast with Gretchen Schwarze, Justin Clapp and Alexis Colley

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And a lot of times, that period of time ends when they leave the hospital or after their follow-up appointment, and consequently, we don’t know that much, at least as trainees, about functional status and what is it going to … You say, “Take a couple days off work,” but what does that mean? ,” drilling down.

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Demystifying the Role of HHS and ASPE in Guiding Federal Aging Policy and Priorities with Dr. Tisamarie Sherry

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On today today’s podcast, we are joined by guest host and UCSF geriatrician Ashwin Kotwal as we welcome Dr. Tisamarie Sherry (Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Behavioral Health, Disability, and Aging Policy (BHDAP) , appointed by the Biden administration). difficile infections.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

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That’s a lot of appointments that we have to account for over time. Additionally, in case patients didn’t step up, we did have sort of events where they were scheduled to see palliative care. You sort of had a month after all of those events. Back at that capacity question, right? Jennifer 27:11 Yes.