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

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What should we use to screen individuals? And this is, of course, an old and foundational idea about clinical practice. The post Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

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Anne: Well, speaking of your kids, a very special, sometimes listener, chimed in named Ren Smith. We’re willing to spend $50,000 a year for individuals for their expensive pharmacy medication. We shouldn’t be mandating individuals, this should be an optional thing for individuals. Alex: Okay. Alex: Thank you.

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

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And I’ll just say that I think what we know is there’s been so much greater advance care planning research and and at many levels, at a at an individual level, at a health system level, at a policy level. I think all three of us are probably ready to answer that to some extent. Hillary: Absolutely true.

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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

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Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. Jennifer Temel study did not have a social worker as part of the clinical team. Thank you very, very much.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

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Arguing for the state of Missouri against the Cruzan’s was Ken Starr, who would later be assigned the role of special prosecutor in the investigation of the Clintons (Whitewater, Lewensky, etc). I hope the law continues to allow flexibility in individualism. No, you make clinical decisions based on the patient and family at hand.

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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. Some of them are really deeply individual experiences.

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

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The idea is, if it works at MGH, that’s a special kind of a place, maybe they do palliative care differently, maybe they have better resources, would this work at other transplant centers that have different kinds of clinicians or that serve different kinds of patients; so we wanted to have diversity of sites and clinicians and patients.