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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

Was there any mention about the impact that hearing loss has in communication or what we should do about it in clinical practice? COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults. Transcript.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

We learned this and much more, and I had a great time making engine noises singing the Woody Guthrie song “driving in my car.” . I don’t practice clinically in outpatient settings, and often the folks I’m seeing are there for other kinds of issues. Additional Links: (A to Z – under driving). OT programs). Is this our role?

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Artificial Intelligence: Charlotta Lindvall, Matt DeCamp, Sei Lee

GeriPal

Alex: And joining us via Zoom, we have Charlotta Lindvall, who is a palliative care physician researcher who studies the intersection of natural language processing and communication data at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, where she also works in clinical informatics. I think the AI can allow for that complexity but still provide some guidance.

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Public Facing Education via Social Media: A Podcast with Julie McFadden, Matt Tyler, Sammy Winemaker and Hsien Seow

GeriPal

Why focus on the public rather than other health care providers? How do they deal with professional barriers and the barrage of comments? Alex: And Sammy Winemaker, who’s a palliative care physician and Associate Clinical Professor at McMaster University in the Department of Family Medicine, Division of Palliative Care.

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Coping with Serious Illness: Danielle Chammas and Amanda Moment

GeriPal

The clinical trials and the this and that. Well, maybe they’re an engineer and understanding makes them feel rooted. And she says, no, I heard that there’s a clinical trial at the Mayo Clinic, and I’m wondering about this. And when they’re in their treatment phase, that’s really serving them.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

So when I was a resident at Cleveland Clinic, I got to see really cutting-edge technology, some of the best surgeons in the country, and perhaps in the world, operating on patients. Eric: Let’s say tomorrow, a patient comes into your clinic. Eric: Mm-hmm. Eric: How about you, Samir? Eric: So Samir, you’re a surgeon, right?

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Nudges for Prognosis and Comfort Care in the ICU: Kate Courtright, Scott Halpern, & Jaspal Singh

GeriPal

At one end of the spectrum you can provide decision makers with information that doesn’t work very well in most contexts. Ultimately, it’s not a study of palliative care clinicians per se, but it’s a study of the construct of providing high quality palliative care. I think it’s good to place nudges in context.