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

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We got a couple of articles to discuss and a lot of different components of this. Eric: Which brings us to an article. Anybody with a DEA and… I should be very careful because this is different for physicians and advanced practice providers. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) â„¢. Jessie: Exactly. Eric: Oh, you were?

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

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And I had no idea what that would look like or what I would do until I happened upon an article by actually a fellow Winnipegger, a man named Jim Brown who was an expert in mood disorders. And decided, interesting article, but it raised as many questions as it answered. ” And we began writing and we got our first grant. .”

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

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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. So for primary care providers, you order that blood test, you own that. And a primary care provider has 18 minutes. And even a prostate cancer.

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

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The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Well, I’m a geriatric nurse practitioner and I provided care to over 800 nursing home residents in 11 different nursing homes. I was really struck by the difference in care provided to people with advanced dementia. Rehabbed to Death.

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

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And is there a middle path to provide some degree of comfort while also hastening the end of life? Joshua Briscoe, to discuss the topic of voluntarily stopping eating and drinking as a potential bridge to access medical aid in dying medications and their respective articles on the topic. Alex 12:41 We should say for our listeners too.

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

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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. Outcomes are typically assessed from available records.

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

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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 that really is what prompted me to get certified as a sexual education provider. So provide multiple sort of concrete examples of what you’re talking about.

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