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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. So we measure things like hospitalizations and ed visits and the like, and those data are a bit weaker, but they’re also, you know, I think they need to be contextualized in what, why we would even want to reduce hospitalizations right. Anna 01:38 Yeah. Here we go.

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Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

GeriPal

Elissa: Well, I don’t know what you’re doing in your practice, but I think you just touched on a lot of the trickiness around mental health assessment at end of life or in the context of serious illness. Or is it that I’m just not screening? If you’re low energy, well, is that the illness or depression?

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Palliative Care for Mental Illness: A Podcast with Dani Chammas and Brent Kious

GeriPal

We invited Dani Chammas , a palliative care physician and psychiatrist at UCSF (and a frequent guest to the GeriPal podcast), as well as Brent Kious , a psychiatrist at the Huntsman Mental Health Institute, focusing on the management of severe persistent mental illnesses. For more details, please click here. (AP AP Recruit Job No.

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