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

GeriPal

There’s an article about her in New York Times. I think that’s not hard to accept this conclusion, that if you know your patient, which is what you get with high continuity, you know your patient, you’re going to pick up on problems that they have before they get so bad that they end up in the emergency room or the hospital.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

And for this podcast in particular, both Bill and Louise wrote articles that we’re going to be discussing particular patient cases. So while you don’t have to, we’re gonna summarize these articles. If you have a chance to read those articles before you listen to this podcast, I highly recommend that you do.

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

GeriPal

She’s a geriatric nurse practitioner specializing in palliative care, and assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. We found their physical environment was drastically different; where those with low feeding tube rates had really a rather beautiful physical environment. Joan: Thanks. Eric: Yeah.

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

GeriPal

See also guides for how to confront and discuss anti-Asian hate in these articles in the NEJM and JGIM. And in our reporting center, we tracked physical assaults, verbal harassment. And because of this encounter, this patient went to the emergency room twice due to having panic episodes that felt like heart attacks.

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

GeriPal

Too many people do because it’s really hard to keep their loved ones at home for the cost, the enormous financial, mental and physical strain for the family. He created fee for service, special fee for depression. The typical utilization of inappropriate hospitalization and emergency room and total cost of care.

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Readers Endorse Doctor Migration and Shun ‘Elderspeak’

Physician's Weekly

A podcast producer and director emeritus of WOUB Public Media zeroed in on our article about restless doctors, sharing his thoughts on X: This must be Trump and Kennedy’s idiotic plan to make American Healthy Again… [link] — Tom Hodson (@thodson) May 29, 2025 — Tom Hodson, Athens, Ohio Oh, Canada Welcomes American Doctors!