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

GeriPal

What should we use to screen individuals? We talk about diagnosis, et cetera, but it’s almost more of a community conversation. In addition to the questions asked above, we also cover the following topics with our guests: What is dementia screening? Who should get it if anyone? What happens after they test positive?

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. They didn’t feel connected to the people in their broader community.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

Why is that important in the emergency room? Actually, our training as emergency physicians is mostly to resuscitate to acute care. So Tammie developed something called EPIC for Emergency medicine, which is a curriculum that was one of the first ways that I think palliative care got spread in our community.

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

GeriPal

None of the changes that we saw in end-of-life care processes relied on specialist palliative care increases or resources, which is really important because seven of the 10 hospitals that participated were rural or community-based, which is where most Americans receive their care, and also where specialist palliative care is often most limited.

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Storytelling in Medicine: A Podcast with Liz Salmi, Anne Kelly, and Preeti Malani

GeriPal

Today we’re going to be talking about narrative writing specifically for healthcare professionals. I’m an empowered patient advocate, individual, and I feel like the motions, the feels were not necessarily in my essay at all. But I think the community, the response, that was overwhelming. They confirmed.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

So, for the two studies, I’ll mention, we use data from the precipitating events project at Yale, which is Tom Gill’s amazing cohort, where they followed a cohort of initially non-disabled community dwell and older adults with monthly measures of function. So, that part was not surprising. Alex: Bye everybody.

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

GeriPal

” And I too was just drawn to … from a clinical perspective, from a research perspective, just this revolving door through the emergency room. I was like, how do you disseminate this knowledge out to these community nursing homes in rural Georgia so that people know about this? Lauren: Yeah, that was my question.