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

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Summary Transcript Summary The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) concluded back in 2000 that there is insufficient evidence to recommend for or against routine screening for dementia in older adults. If so, how do we screen and who do we screen? What should we use to screen individuals? Cognitive screening.

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

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Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. They didn’t feel connected to the people in their broader community.

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

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And to keep it short work for an article. Ruth: Very strong odor, devoid of furniture, broken screens … Eric: So it was the physical environment and … Ruth: Physical environment. I was like, how do you disseminate this knowledge out to these community nursing homes in rural Georgia so that people know about this?

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

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Ongoing reports from patients about anti-Asian hate experiences Should clinicians screen for Anti-Asian hate? question used to screen for domestic violence. See also guides for how to confront and discuss anti-Asian hate in these articles in the NEJM and JGIM. Add to this, “do you feel safe outside the home?”

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

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So I thought… And I was doing this for the United States Preventive Services Task Force because we were looking at the evidence to what’s the benefit and harm of screening, and I had to look all over. Whereas with comprehensive dementia care, what you really need is a lot of the support that is delivered in the community.

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What Lessons Have We Learned from the First COVID Surges? Jim Wright & Darrell Owens

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Including, I think, a 24/7 palliative care intervention in the emergency room, an inpatient comfort care intervention for COVID-positive patients … doing a tremendous amount. So we anticipated, based on what was happening in Seattle, a pretty large influx of elders that were going to come through the emergency room.