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

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Summary Transcript Summary The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) concluded back in 2000 that there is insufficient evidence to recommend for or against routine screening for dementia in older adults. If so, how do we screen and who do we screen? What should we use to screen individuals? Cognitive screening.

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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

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And it’s also hard because oftentimes people don’t even bring this up in clinic. Do you screen for lower urinary tract symptoms, incontinence, and if so, how? Eric 11:57 In, let’s say, my clinic. Alex 13:24 Eric is pushing on the like, the clinical, practical stuff. Eric 08:05 Yeah.

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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

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Join us as we dive deeper into these studies and discuss the implications for clinical practice and patient care. And there’s so much work on, you know, you’ve got to take these medicines, you got to prevent this treat, that there isn’t that same sort of clinical momentum towards deprescribing. Alex 15:36 Yeah.

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Intentionally Interprofessional Care: DorAnne Donesky, Michelle Milic, Naomi Saks, & Cara Wallace

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social worker, chaplain), everyone should be able to ask a question or two about spiritual concerns, social concerns, or physical concerns. So we took this idea of, and it’s really an invitation from the national consensus project that every member of the team should be screening in all domains. But how about you!

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Anxiety in Late Life and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson

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We then walk through how we should screen for anxiety and how we should think about a differential. I have so many questions, and I promise we’re going to get to the management of anxiety and serious illness. So it tends to be future oriented and tends to show up as a physical sensation in our body. Brianna 00:41 Thanks.

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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

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On todays podcast, weve invited Nathaniel Chin back to the GeriPal podcast to talk about what primary care needs to manage this new world of Alzheimers disease effectively. How should we screen for cognitive impairment? So let’s just say you have a healthy 55 year old or 65 year old in your clinic. Nate 05:29 Ooh.

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

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Kate and Ashwin talked about their research on the prevalence of lifetime trauma and its association with physical and psychosocial health among adults at the end of life. Physical symptoms like pain, dyspnea, fatigue, psychological symptoms, depression, loneliness, and then some of the social experiences as well, like social isolation.

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