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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. And honestly in undergrad I was like, “Engineering is really hard. Transcript. This is Eric Widera.

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Coping with Serious Illness: Danielle Chammas and Amanda Moment

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Here are some more resources we’ve discussed in the podcast Dani’s NEJM article on coping: “ Should I Laugh at That? But if we’re going to have a family meeting, that’s a different circumstance. Amanda 20:21 I think family members are a lot of how we make formulations about how people are coping.

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Improving Nursing Home Quality: Jasmine Travers, Alice Bonner, Isaac Longobardi, and Mike Wasserman

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Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. And the technology piece, so doing less with staff.

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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. Alex: Go ahead Matt.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

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In today’s podcast we talk with surgeon Samir Shah and Health Services Researcher Joel Weissman about a pair of JAGS articles they published on the outcomes of high risk surgery and advance care planning among persons with dementia. She has advance dementia. Eric: Yeah. Eric: So, let’s talk about that. They would be horrified.

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Nudges for Prognosis and Comfort Care in the ICU: Kate Courtright, Scott Halpern, & Jaspal Singh

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And so we simply asked clinicians, have you offered this patient and, or their family the option of care focused on comfort? Their family members want them to get out of the hospital sooner. That’s in a, before a family meeting where you’re probably going to have a goals of care discussion, not in daily rounds.

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As Federal Health Grants Shrink, Memory Cafes Help Dementia Patients and Their Caregivers

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Losing Memory, and Other Things, Too Kennedy’s diagnosis led him to retire, ending a decades-long career as a software engineer at the University of Scranton. He recommends memory cafes to other people with dementia and their families. ” This article is part of a partnership with NPR and WVIA. I get to meet them.