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

GeriPal

What should we use to screen individuals? There’s an article about her in New York Times. In addition to the questions asked above, we also cover the following topics with our guests: What is dementia screening? Who should get it if anyone? What happens after they test positive? But it seems very apropos to the topic. Here we go.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

This topic came up with Bernie published an article in New England Journal called Deciding for Patients Who Have Lost Decision-Making Capacity Finding Common Ground in Medical Ethics. You write about this, you’ve written this New England Journal article, you’ve written past articles.

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

GeriPal

I’m wondering, you talked about that patient who was really isolated and coming to the emergency room. I think some of that is from some of my thinking about maybe what I can potentially think about with the individual to support them. Were you administering scales to pick up on loneliness and isolation? I would say that.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

Why is that important in the emergency room? Actually, our training as emergency physicians is mostly to resuscitate to acute care. Did this primary palliative care intervention in the emergency room involving a. I mean, those articles didn’t get published in jama, so in journals, but we had qualitative.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

Eric: I got a question because it was a ways back, but we did a podcast on keep your hands to yourself from a JAMA IMR article that showed that use of mechanical ventilation for nursing home residents with advanced dementia doubled between 2000 and 2013, that was a John Tino study. How do I reconcile these two issues?

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Storytelling in Medicine: A Podcast with Liz Salmi, Anne Kelly, and Preeti Malani

GeriPal

Eric: Yeah, I can also imagine … So writing a traditional academic journal article is, one, you said it’s formulaic in a way. I’m an empowered patient advocate, individual, and I feel like the motions, the feels were not necessarily in my essay at all. So I’ll stop there. You have the same sections.

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

GeriPal

And to keep it short work for an article. ” And I too was just drawn to … from a clinical perspective, from a research perspective, just this revolving door through the emergency room. Because this revolving door in the emergency room was basically assault and battery, if you will. Eric: Yeah.