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

GeriPal

But the thing that really motivates me is seeing, you know, and trying to manage later stage, you know, we can call them complications of people who haven’t had a diagnosis are now really in, you know, a world of complexity around other conditions, around managing life and managing practical things.

Screening 120
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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

We have our social workers and our psychologists and we know how to manage these symptoms. I treat patients with acute leukemias and related diseases, so I kind of know some of this from my own clinical practice. Emergency rooms. Eric: To all of our emergency medicine colleagues, saved the best for the last.

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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.

IT 100
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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

It improves symptom management. Joan: A lot of my work comes out of my clinical practice. ” And I too was just drawn to … from a clinical perspective, from a research perspective, just this revolving door through the emergency room. I think that we need to stop re-inserting the feeding tube.”