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Poetry & Palliative Care: Podcast with Mike Rabow and Redwing Keyssar

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Institute for Poetic Medicine. Mike Rabow’s Comprehensive Care Team randomized trial of outpatient palliative care. Look also for a forthcoming article by Mike and Redwing in Journal of Pain and Symptom Management on poetry as a healing modality, to be published mid May (will add link when out).

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

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Eric: What got you interested in memory care, dementia, and put you on this path? Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. You said this journey started for you back in what? Malaz: 1999, my friend. And I was terrified.