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

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If you want to take a deeper dive into this subject and read some of the articles we discussed in the podcast, check out the following: Hearing Loss: Effect on Hospice and Palliative Care Through the Eyes of Practitioners. COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. Transcript. This is Eric Widera.

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

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The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. However, its main predictors are age, comorbidity, and healthcare utilization. I guess, I’d say, and I said this in the article, we saw more movement on the FACT-G subscales of social and emotional quality of life. David: Yeah.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

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I’m going to quote, so there’s an article in JAMA Internal Medicine recently by Madeline Sterling who’s in New York at Weill Cornell obtaining and paying for home care, navigating patients through the complex terrain of home care in the US. This is reaching the highest utilizers with a wraparound suite of services.

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

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The typical utilization of inappropriate hospitalization and emergency room and total cost of care. And those people have a higher, not just dementia, but other multiple chronic conditions. We have to demonstrate we can do that. Otherwise, we will be kicked out of the program or the payment. So that’s very important one.