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

GeriPal

Alex 00:20 And she’s professor of family medicine at USC, deputator at JAGS, and co lead of the bold center of Excellence in early detection of dementia. Well, because they’re hard on people with dementia and they can be very hard on families, and they’re a form of crisis. Is that right, Soo? Soo 00:32 Thanks.

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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

GeriPal

Management of chronic pain in the elderly: focus on transdermal buprenorphine. We got some really special guests with us. If somebody’s dealing with a chronic pain and multiple chronic diseases, they have an opioid use disorder and we get referred that patient to a palliative care clinic is that in our Bailey wick?

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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

GeriPal

Because I think we have someone special, a guest host. Has the usual collection of chronic diseases, paroxysmal afib, hypertension, chronic kidney disease, adult diabetes, a little anemia, a little edema, a little mild cognitive impairment. A pill organizer, having family. This is Eric Widera.

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

GeriPal

These are patients who had a pre-existing chronic disease, very broadly defined. COPD, heart failure, solid oncology, hematologic malignancy, dementia, ALS, interstitial lung disease, several others. It makes patients and families feel better and outcomes better and quality of care better, and we can implement it.

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

GeriPal

But at any age, like, as Emily said, it is so important to pay attention to nutrition and healthy eating because it’s not just about, oh, chronic disease prevention or even treatment and management. Now there’s evidence for some more specialized hormonal conditions. So I lived with a family there. Go on, Anna.

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

GeriPal

Alex 00:07 We are delighted to welcome Peter Selwyn, who is a family medicine and palliative medicine doctor and chairman of the Department of Family and Social Medicine and director of the Palliative Care Program at Montefiore E instein and author of Surviving the the Personal Journey of an AIDS Doctor. Who are our guests?

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

JAGS Hospital-at-Home Interventions vs In-Hospital Stay for Patients With Chronic Disease Who Present to the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. And they said, “This is really interesting, but all you’re really doing here is transferring the burden of care from hospital staff to family members.”

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