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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

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So on today’s podcast we invite four brilliant individuals to talk about their perspective on how to change how we as a society and health care system partner with individuals with dementia. Her most recent book is Dementia Friendly Communities: why we need them and how we can create them . Susan: Yeah, that was me.

Community 101
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Normalcy, Introspection, & the Experience of Serious Illness: Bill Gardner, Juliet Jacobsen, and Brad Stuart

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Summary Transcript Summary How do people react when they hear they have a serious illness? And some people, in addition or instead, engage in deep introspection on how to make meaning or live with or understand this experience of serious illness. Shock, “like a car is rushing straight at me” (says Bill Gardner on our podcast).

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Avoiding the Uncanny Valley in Serious Illness Communication: Josh Briscoe

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Coming off as rote and scripted during a serious illness conversation can have a similar off-putting impact on patients and families. – Anticipatory corpse book mentioned several times on the podcast. Today we talk with Josh about how to anticipate and avoid the uncanny valley. And talk about times when we’ve fallen into it. .

Illness 101
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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

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Eric 01:04 So we’re going to be talking about transgender health in older adults and those with serious illness. To note that I am an individual who goes through this world. I face a lot of different stressors and challenges similar to other individuals, but I also have my own unique experiences. Noelle Marie 01:15 I do.

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Public Facing Education via Social Media: A Podcast with Julie McFadden, Matt Tyler, Sammy Winemaker and Hsien Seow

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all of whom focus their efforts on educating the general public about living and dying with a serious illness. She covers topics on death, dying, and hospice from a hospice nurse perspective, and she also has a book coming out called “ Nothing to Fear: Demystifying Death to Live More Fully ,” which is now available for pre-order.

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Images of the Dying: A Podcast with Wendy MacNaughton, Lingsheng Li, and Frank Ostaseski

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Our focus today, however, was on her most recently published book titled How to Say Goodby e. This beautiful book began as a very personal project for Wendy while she was the artist-in-residence at Zen Hospice. They had triple diagnoses, often life threatening illness, but also mental illness and usually some kind of addiction.

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Telehealth vs In-Person Palliative Care: A Podcast with Joseph Greer, Lynn Flint, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson

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Additionally, here are some of the resources we talked about during the podcast: Eduardo Brueras editorial that accompanies the JAMA paper titled Improving Palliative Care Access for Patients With Cancer Our podcast on Stepped Palliative Care with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar The book What’s in the Syringe?