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Group ACP and Equity: Sarah Nouri, Hillary Lum, LJ Van Scoy

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Sarah Nouri, Hillary Lum, and LJ Van Scoy argue that diverse communities are asking for ACP. Sarah Nouri gives an example from her work in the LGBTQ+ community of a trans woman who was buried as a man because existing laws/rules did not protect her wishes. I would like to request the Friendship Train by Gladys Knight and the Pips.

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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

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And then the family tells me they can’t keep an appointment, they can’t manage their finances. That is enough for me that I would want them to come to my clinic where I have a neuropsychologist that’s gonna conduct a 50 minute thorough cognitive assessment. It’s not on the community’s end.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

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Joan: A lot of my work comes out of my clinical practice. That’s a problem in our healthcare financing system. I was like, how do you disseminate this knowledge out to these community nursing homes in rural Georgia so that people know about this? We didn’t respond. Lauren: Yeah, that was my question.