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

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COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults. And he liked some of what I was doing, which was really on diabetes and hearing loss. He is one of those superstars here. Alex: Great story.

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

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Knowing that the community is really underrepresented in sort of our knowledge, what we do, how we provide care that’s truly inclusive and welcoming. And this is for all of us, that when we’re going into this space of providing inclusive and affirming care, it really starts out with humility, because there’s a lot to learn.

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Artificial Intelligence: Charlotta Lindvall, Matt DeCamp, Sei Lee

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” 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 I think the AI can allow for that complexity but still provide some guidance. Sei: I wonder if there’s a analogy between the internet 1.0

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

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But you worry that the advance directive does not provide enough guidance for the specific decision at Yael Jo, do you. So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. It doesn’t provide enough guidance for the clinicians to make decisions.

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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

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But I mean, I would also add that not all of the responses to the PGA, and to the provider part that is completed, are coming from the patient. A surgeon who is seeing a patient and detects diabetes out of control is not going to say, “Damn the diabetes, get them to the OR now.”

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

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Her most recent book is Elderhood. He made it very clear that he called me by looking my number up in the phone book. He was a terrible diabetic. And it’s not the same, but it does provide information. Eric 00:13 And, Alex, who do we have with us today? Louise, welcome back to GeriPal. His hands were gone.

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Optimizing Nutrition in Aging: A Podcast with Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston

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Elizabeth Eckstrom is a geriatrician, professor of medicine at OHSU, and author of a new book, the Gift of Aging. That’s Oregon Health Sciences University, and whose new book is T he G ift of Aging. Eric 08:13 And Elizabeth, you just read a book. What was the title of the book again? AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) â„¢.

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