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Should you have a coach? Greg Pawlson, Beth Griffiths, & Vicky Tang

GeriPal

We make a diagnosis. We’re doing a lot of interactive relationship building. You have to, A, have done a geriatrics fellowship and, B, had some ongoing and passed the geri board. There is a standard and there’s a certifying agency, the International … Vicky: Coaching Federation, I think.

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Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison

GeriPal

The ability to appreciate, recognize, and engage with music is preserved even until late stages of dementia, and Theresa is examining how music can be useful from the time of diagnosis, not only for the person with dementia, but their caregivers. I am not a board certified. I am not a certified music therapist.

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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

GeriPal

Just got the diagnosis based on blood tests of amyloid. Then just got the diagnosis. Clinicians certified her as terminally ill because of the V said. So my concern is that if you’re going to be doing something that results in somebody’s death, you really want to make sure you’re above board about it.

IT 89