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What is a Leadership Course

LEAD Physician

For example, a physician might be dealing with a patient who has just been diagnosed with cancer. Build Relationships Physicians must establish solid and lasting relationships with the individuals in their practice.

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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

GeriPal

George 03:01 So I would say that as many clinical issues in older adults, we need to think about them in two ways. Incontinence and avoiding issues can present in an older individual, in some cases, just like they do a younger person. Biological aging or physiological aging varies from individual to individual.

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

GeriPal

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. We’re going to be talking about things like creative engagement in individuals with dementia. Susan: Yeah, that was me.

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

GeriPal

How the act of drawing can help us sloooow down, pay attention to the people and world around us, and ultimately let go… The possibility of incorporating drawings in research and even clinical care. They had triple diagnoses, often life threatening illness, but also mental illness and usually some kind of addiction.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

GeriPal

So, for example, everyone who was diagnosed with an advanced or metastatic lung cancer had a prognosis on the order of months. Eric 07:31 A clinical perspective, why is it important to test this stepped care model versus implementing more? And there’s a mortality number of people who just can’t make it to get to our clinic.

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Health and Wealth Shocks: Lauren Hunt, Rebecca Rodin, Tsai-Chin Cho

GeriPal

But from our clinical work, many of us are familiar with people with dementia who experience sudden shocks to their health, think hip fracture, think hospitalization for pneumonia. Sometimes people call them health shocks, but we kind of all, like, clinically, intuitively know what these things are. Has really changed.

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