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Dysphagia Revisited: A Podcast with Raele Donetha Robison and Nicole Rogus-Pulia

GeriPal

We also talk about the importance of a proactive approach to involving speech-language pathologists in the care of individuals early on with neurodegenerative diseases like dementia and ALS. So as you mentioned, dementia, there’s some research that show about 86% or 93% of those individuals will get that. Raele: Yes, of course.

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What You Should Know About Radiation Oncology: Anish Butala, Emily Martin and Evie Kalmar

GeriPal

So you have the consultation. So from the simulation, the patient goes home, the physician and the physicist and the dosimetry department put together a treatment plan, and then the patient comes back for their actual fractions of their actual treatments. Procedure as well as the treatments. Like, is it just boom?

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

GeriPal

Ashwin Kotwal: Yeah, and Thomas, I know this is something we’ve talked about as a group too, which is how do you translate some of these scales that we use in large studies to our clinical practice? You all know from palliative care is a huge step in terms of a “treatment.” I would say that. It’s tough.

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