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

GeriPal

I’m a dementia specialist, and so what I was experiencing was that many people were coming to see me to get a diagnosis of a very straightforward case of mild Alzheimer’s or moderate Alzheimer’s disease, whose doctors had told them there was nothing wrong with them or that their memory was better than my own, says the doctor.

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You don’t need X-Rays in a child with bronchiolitis, croup, asthma, or first time wheezing

PEMBlog

Special thanks to Todd Florin, MD, MSCE who contributed to this post – he is also an expert on respiratory and infectious emergencies. Research suggests most CXRs are performed because ED clinicians (and many parents) are concerned for the possibility of missing pneumonia or another diagnosis requiring specific management.

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Telemedicine and the Prescribing of Controlled Substances After the End of The Covid-19 Pandemic Emergency: DEA Announces Two Significant Proposed Rules: Read the Summary Below, But Learn All the Details and More at HPM’s Webinar on March 23, 2023 (Details Forthcoming….)

FDA Law Blog

While no “special registration” will yet be required to engage in telemedicine prescribing of controlled substances, DEA is proposing parameters to guide the practice of telemedicine encounters in a post-COVID world. The Act also established new definitions for “Internet,” “online pharmacy,” “practice of telemedicine,” among others.

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Prevention of Dementia: Kristine Yaffe

GeriPal

The beautiful thing about it, it’s more than just having a career development award; it’s a community of aging researchers. One of the highlights really is the networking and the community that it fosters and highlighted, in some ways, by the meeting, which of course you often lead the sing along at. I agree with you.

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Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison

GeriPal

The ability to appreciate, recognize, and engage with music is preserved even until late stages of dementia, and Theresa is examining how music can be useful from the time of diagnosis, not only for the person with dementia, but their caregivers. My voice is nothing special. I think that’s more palliative than me. I forgot about.

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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

GeriPal

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. So I really opted to specialize in lung cancer because I thought that was the appropriate population to build a supportive and palliative care research agenda. Jennifer: Thanks.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

Anne: Well, speaking of your kids, a very special, sometimes listener, chimed in named Ren Smith. laugher] Alex: And, so we put them together and I feel like there’s been a real coming together of the Geriatrics and Palliative care communities and sort of cross-fertilization between the two and efforts between the two.

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