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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.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

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I, for example, had one patient, I remember during my fellowship, I was in geriatrics clinic and had a very well read patient who came in and was reading a New York Times article, I think in the well section at one point. But you worry that the advance directive does not provide enough guidance for the specific decision at Yael Jo, do you.

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

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But I mean, I would also add that not all of the responses to the PGA, and to the provider part that is completed, are coming from the patient. We brought up your JAGS article, which we’ll link to our show notes about some of the geriatric needs, falls. John: You know, Eric, I think it’s a definite possibility.

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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. I think the AI can allow for that complexity but still provide some guidance.

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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. Why would CBT work for neuropathic pain and diabetes differently than it would work for neuropathic pain and cancer? Eric: Which brings us to an article. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Why would that be? Jessie: Exactly. Eric: Oh, you were?

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