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

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Joe 03:55 You know, my thoughts are screening is important for a variety of reasons, and certainly Doctor Boris and Soo and Anna, Doctor chodos can provide a lot greater clinical insight than I. What hasn’t been shown, Eric, is that if you apply tools like this, clinical outcomes down the road are better for patients.

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Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

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Is it that they’re clinically depressed or that they’re understandably sad at the situation that they’re in or specific issues? We might say, “Of course you’re sad, you just got a very serious diagnosis.” Or is it that I’m just not screening? Is this a new onset depression? Eric: Yeah.

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Palliative Care for Mental Illness: A Podcast with Dani Chammas and Brent Kious

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* This episode of the GeriPal Podcast is sponsored by the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital Division of Hospital Medicine , which is committed to providing outstanding, compassionate care to all patients, advancing health equity, and fostering excellence in hospital medicine. For more details, please click here.

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