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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

And this is not about treating dementia as a disease of the brain in isolation from the person. I heard this beautiful thing the other day, which was to an electronic medical record, I am not a whole person. And either of those could be given to the patient or an informant. Not all of them, but you’ll pick up on some.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

We all, when bombarded with information have to take certain elements of a decision and focus on those; and in the ICU, you can imagine, we’re bombarded with information a lot. Kate: So it was an embedded alert in the electronic health record and they just clicked those two answers very quickly. Emergency rooms.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

I’ve been on a quest to build those services and support so that people can make true, informed decisions for themselves and their families. All of them offer the same array of services, really emphasizing social determinants of health and preventive services like falls prevention, chronic disease, self-management, caregiver training.