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

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Was there any mention about the impact that hearing loss has in communication or what we should do about it in clinical practice? Screening for addressing hearing loss should be an integral part of what we do in geriatrics and palliative care, but it often is either a passing thought or completely ignored. I’m guessing not.

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

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We also explored several questions with them, including how to define trauma, its prevalence in older adults, the impact of past traumatic experiences, the potential triggers of trauma screening, and the application of trauma-informed principles in clinical practice. So there’s an event or a series of events.

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Psychedelics – reasons for caution: Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, Theora Cimino

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FDA is considering approval, shifting away from Schedule I restrictions, paving the way for use in clinical practice. Psilocybin, the most commonly used psychedelic, increases heart rate and blood pressure, which may potentially lead to cardiovascular events. Stacy: We’re using anxiety, baseline anxiety, as our screening.

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Jumpstarting Goals of Care Convos: Erin Kross, Bob Lee, and Ruth Engelberg

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” And I saw Randy run family meetings before I knew he was famous, before I knew he was this legendary researcher. He really practiced what he preached. And I think that his research was informed by his clinical practice, his clinical practice was informed by his research. And the guy was just so good.

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Redefining Alzheimer’s Disease: A Podcast with Heather Whitson, Jason Karlawish, Lon Schneider

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Heather: I’m requesting the song Don’t You Forget About Me, which is one of the things that I think matters most to patients and families living with Alzheimer’s disease. Because those experiments show that the actor being targeted, lipids for example, is part of the causal pathway to an undesired event. Jason: Yeah.

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