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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

There’s an article about her in New York Times. I think that’s not hard to accept this conclusion, that if you know your patient, which is what you get with high continuity, you know your patient, you’re going to pick up on problems that they have before they get so bad that they end up in the emergency room or the hospital.

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

GeriPal

The idea was to create a robust community-based infrastructure that could help older adults succeed in their homes and communities, whether they were healthy, how to keep them healthy or they were at imminent risk of emergency room visits, hospitalizations, or nursing home placements. There have been some fabulous national articles.