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

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So I make the point, they often say, “Oh, you have this special population,” like pediatrics, where it’s 10% or something. ” But there seems to be something special when we move from something that we can just check box like, “I’ve done this,” like a lab order or imaging study.

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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. They have a special skill, and when they see someone who needs it, they need to use it. That makes it really special for them and for me. Louise, welcome back to GeriPal.

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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? Elizabeth 01:04 Thank you, Alex.

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

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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. In San Francisco, HIV care was more specialized in that. Who wants to go first?