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

GeriPal

We got a couple of articles to discuss and a lot of different components of this. Eric: Which brings us to an article. Have you had a family history of substance use disorder? Should it just be referral to their PMD, who’s all, “Why are these people telling me to do all this stuff all the time?”

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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

GeriPal

So I’m in a specialty clinic, so I’m in this interdisciplinary memory assessment clinic. So I get all the referrals from my great colleagues in primary care. And then the family tells me they can’t keep an appointment, they can’t manage their finances. Well, there’s my complaint.

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Dignity at the End of Life: A Podcast with Harvey Chochinov

GeriPal

Harvey is probably best known for his work in developing dignity therapy, a psychological intervention designed specifically to address many of the psychological, existential, and spiritual challenges that patients and their families face as death approaches. And decided, interesting article, but it raised as many questions as it answered.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Whereas the home with the low rate of feeding tube use involved families in decision making. So we looked at hospital referral regions, and we looked at high- and low- intensity regions. And to keep it short work for an article.

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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

GeriPal

To delve into these questions, we spoke with Hope Wechkin, medical director of EvergreenHealth home hospice, who authored an article describing a process of Minimal Comfort Feeding (MCF) for patients who have expressed an interest in not wanting to live with advanced dementia. Joe, Josh, welcome back to Jerry Pal. Is that right, Hope?

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Pragmatic Trial of ACP: Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson

GeriPal

Summary Transcript CME Summary A pragmatic trial evaluates the effectiveness of a treatment or intervention in real-world clinical practice. But before we dive into the study and the implications it has for the practice that we do, I believe someone has a song request. I’m hearing family and caregivers.

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Sexual Function in Serious Illness: Areej El-Jawahri, Sharon Bober, and Don Dizon

GeriPal

Here are some articles that Kira and I have written about the topic, and that’s really how my interest in addressing sexual health concerns started. And so we have basic treatments for these issues that we train oncology clinicians to bring up in clinic practice. And I work right next to Don at the time.

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