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Anxiety in Late Life and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson

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We then walk through how we should screen for anxiety and how we should think about a differential. If they’ve said they had a traumatic experience receiving a diagnosis. And so in terms of, am I looking to put a DSM diagnosis to someone? What would be the benefit to myself, or hopefully for them to add a DSM diagnosis?

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

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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. What’s your favorite book? She has a new book coming out, but keep going.

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The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medicine: Guest Bob Wachter

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So in truth, I called it a b r because the Book On B t, you ever read that, Bob? Eric: Yeah, great book. And what I want to do is, this is a tough task for you, I’m sure, but I have a patient with a new diagnosis of cancer, and it’s actually a 35-year-old woman. AI has a long and not storied history in healthcare.

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

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Alex 16:55 My guess is probably not something that most geriatricians or internists or family medicine docs caring for older people have on their differential diagnosis. Is a new diagnosis of HIV. If they did, it was before AIDS was a diagnosis. Meredith 17:07 Yes. And I think patients too, don’t always people.

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Poetry & Palliative Care: Podcast with Mike Rabow and Redwing Keyssar

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Mike Rabow shares his award winning poem about coming out to the world about his diagnosis with multiple sclerosis. . When I was about nine-years-old, they gave me a book of poems of Edna St. In school, I was asked to write a book report, and instead of writing a book report, I wrote a poem that went. Vincent Millay.

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

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If you are interested in learning more about the draft guidelines and the response from AGS to these guidelines, check out the following links: Revised Criteria for Diagnosis and Staging of Alzheimer’s Disease: Alzheimer’s Association Workgroup AGS’s response to the revised criteria Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

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There’s a book called The 36-hour day for dementia caregivers. But what happened when we finally… When he did get the diagnosis, it all fell into place. And we defined that as earlier detection and timely detection diagnosis to evaluation, care planning delivery, all the way to end of life.