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

GeriPal

I don’t have access to change the levers of government. And this is, of course, an old and foundational idea about clinical practice. And maybe there is a need for a paradigm shift of moving away from screening for dementia versus a brain health type of approach. Eric 19:56 Okay, but I’m a primary care provider.

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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? I’m wondering, you talked about that patient who was really isolated and coming to the emergency room.

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