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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

We talk with Nick and Meg about: Why hearing loss is important not just in geriatrics but also for those caring for seriously ill individuals. And he liked some of what I was doing, which was really on diabetes and hearing loss. Or, do we know anything even how common it is, serious illness, palliative care populations?

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Artificial Intelligence: Charlotta Lindvall, Matt DeCamp, Sei Lee

GeriPal

” So instead of reading a book, we’ll just read it on an iPad. I actually like reading books and the physical,” and what the internet 2.0 Because the in serious illness care and care for older adults, their care is often very complex. Sei: I wonder if there’s a analogy between the internet 1.0 Eric: Yeah.

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

GeriPal

Eric 01:04 So we’re going to be talking about transgender health in older adults and those with serious illness. Is that because they have higher rates of chronic conditions like diabetes, coronary disease, tobacco use, things like that, or is there something else that’s going on? And great to meet Jace on here.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

Summary Transcript CME Summary Many older adults lose decision-making capacity during serious illnesses, and a significant percentage lack family or friends to assist with decisions. And then the process of having a guardian and then trying to have that guardian ultimately removed is a difficult one for a patient who’s seriously ill.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

Her most recent book is Elderhood. You know, she would have had 90 really good years, and she would have just gone into a coma with no blood pressure and died, you know, with, like, a day and a half of illness. He made it very clear that he called me by looking my number up in the phone book. He was a terrible diabetic.

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Redefining Alzheimer’s Disease: A Podcast with Heather Whitson, Jason Karlawish, Lon Schneider

GeriPal

And the two were sort of intermeshed even to the point in the eighties, the thought was all dementia is Alzheimer’s or it’s some medical illness or combination of other stuff that’s not about it. That’s in my view as analogous as to any other illness. You need the plaques to have that illness.

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HIV, Aging, and Palliative Care: Peter Selwyn and Meredith Greene

GeriPal

Or is the aging process and development of serious illness so similar to people who are not living with HIV that we can sort of move on and consider it, you know, sort of like diabetes, for example. I mean, you know, you mentioned diabetes. Who wants to go first? What am I doing? I think you need both. So whether.