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Prevention of Dementia: Kristine Yaffe

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There I was, extremely overly trained with brain stuff, and I wanted to learn how to do clinical research. I just thought there was so much we could learn and offer from every sense, from the clinical point of view, from the family point of view, from prevention, from treatment, epidemiology, et cetera. One might argue they still are.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

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In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Who do we have with us today? Katie, welcome back to GeriPal.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

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I, for example, had one patient, I remember during my fellowship, I was in geriatrics clinic and had a very well read patient who came in and was reading a New York Times article, I think in the well section at one point. Alex 16:45 That really rings true with my clinical experience. And I know I do primarily inpatient work.

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

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He’s a medical director of H ebrew S enior L ife outpatient clinic at Newbridge. Alex 04:07 A heart failure clinic playing in the background. 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.

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On Racism & Ageism: Ramona Rhodes, Sharon Brangman, Tim Farrell, and Nancy Lundebjerg

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It’s baked into people’s belief systems, who ultimately make laws and make policies, and it can influence healthcare. It can influence education systems. So I think you can see how there’s a lot of work to do among multiple sectors within healthcare, including education and training. Eric: Yes.

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GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundeberg and Annie Medina-Walpole

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It always has clinical relevance to practice today. So I’m going to ask Eric and Ken to identify their favorite topic that they’ve covered to discuss any of the updates that they’re thinking that can be relevant to clinical care of older people. Nancy 17:10 So there’s a follow up. Ken 26:02 Okay.

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

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We also explored several questions with them, including how to define trauma, its prevalence in older adults, the impact of past traumatic experiences, the potential triggers of trauma screening, and the application of trauma-informed principles in clinical practice. Ashwin 18:08 These are things that we often see from a clinical standpoint.

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