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Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

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Summary Transcript Summary Diabetes is common. When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. And yet we’re also in a different place in diabetes monitoring and management. Goldilocks zone). This is Eric Widera.

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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

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In our third segment, we explore Amy Linskys study that examined the effect of patient-directed educational materials on clinician deprescribing of potentially low-benefit or high-risk medications, such as proton pump inhibitors, high-dose gabapentin, or risky diabetes medications. So I think it is already being done. Why is that?

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

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If you want to take a deeper dive into this subject and read some of the articles we discussed in the podcast, check out the following: Hearing Loss: Effect on Hospice and Palliative Care Through the Eyes of Practitioners. COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. Transcript. This is Eric Widera.

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Prevention of Dementia: Kristine Yaffe

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A lot of these are more vascular risk factors: hypertension, certainly; diabetes; obesity. If you could wave a magic wand to change one thing: sleep, blood pressure control, eradicate diabetes, get everybody exercising, what do you think would have the most bang for the buck in terms of dementia reduction? This is Eric Widera.

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Artificial Intelligence: Charlotta Lindvall, Matt DeCamp, Sei Lee

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For example, there was one article that we reviewed for Jags where it asked great questions, they gave great prompts, and ChatGPT answered great questions about antipsychotics and gave a list of references to back up ChatGPT’s assertions. Our names were slightly off. And they were complete hallucinations. Eric: Yeah.

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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

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I’d also like to give a shout out to a recent ACP article on HFpEF with an outstanding contribution from Ariela Orkaby, geriatrician extraordinaire (we also just did a podcast with her on frailty ). ** This podcast is not CME eligible. He was describing his, like, 87 year old grandma who was placed on a low salt diabetic diet.

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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

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We brought up your JAGS article, which we’ll link to our show notes about some of the geriatric needs, falls. I think geriatrics and palliative care, Alex had this really nice Venn diagram that he had created for an article he wrote, where it’s overlapping. ” Eric: Well, Mazie, I’m going to you.