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

GeriPal

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. Who do you think we should be screening and how should we be screening them for these symptoms? Well, so I guess it depends on what you say screening. Nate 05:29 Ooh. So that’s.

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

GeriPal

Our early studies were looking at things like, desire for death, and syndromal depression, and screening for depression and anxiety, and will to live. How do you do that in clinical practice, in a way that doesn’t take five hours of sitting down with somebody? I’m fully present. Eric: So how do you do that?

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

GeriPal

So we looked at hospital referral regions, and we looked at high- and low- intensity regions. Ruth: Very strong odor, devoid of furniture, broken screens … Eric: So it was the physical environment and … Ruth: Physical environment. Joan: A lot of my work comes out of my clinical practice.