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

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There’s an article about her in New York Times. We didn’t have medications that were effective with a few side effects. And this is not about treating dementia as a disease of the brain in isolation from the person. We want to treat that disease, and we need to code that disease. Anna 01:38 Yeah.

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

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These individuals may become unrepresented, meaning they lack the capacity to make a specific medical decision, do not have an advance directive for that decision, and do not have a surrogate to help. We’re going to be talking about the American Geriatric Society position statement on making medical treatment decisions.