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

GeriPal

Was there any mention about the impact that hearing loss has in communication or what we should do about it in clinical practice? COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults.

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

GeriPal

So I think we’re poised now with the guide model and with the evidence we have about healthcare utilization, impact on caregivers, course of dementia, comorbidity management and all of that. And either of those could be given to the patient or an informant. So there are some studies going on in that direction as well.

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

GeriPal

So, we use that information to formulate a treatment plan. But again, most of my clinical practice, until recent years, has been in the acute care setting. Eric: I also wonder, is it just the utilization review standpoint? And then when we think about our interventions, we have sort of two categories. Eric: Great.

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POLST Evidence and Update: Kelly Vranas, Abby Dotson, Karl Steinberg, and Scott Halpern

GeriPal

It’s like how liberating it is to eliminate resentments, regrets and envy from our lives and how great it is in our clinical practice when we’re able to help families reconcile after an estrangement, how much relief that brings. So I do think it’s useful to have that additional information. Eric: Kelly?

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

GeriPal

We all, when bombarded with information have to take certain elements of a decision and focus on those; and in the ICU, you can imagine, we’re bombarded with information a lot. I treat patients with acute leukemias and related diseases, so I kind of know some of this from my own clinical practice.

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Dignity at the End of Life: A Podcast with Harvey Chochinov

GeriPal

How do you do that in clinical practice, in a way that doesn’t take five hours of sitting down with somebody? The specifics of how it does that depend on the population in which it’s implemented, and the outcome measure that is utilized. We want to be seen for the entirety of who we are as human beings.

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

GeriPal

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 we were able to work under a waiver of informed consent with making the case that we were promoting, which should be standard of care.