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

GeriPal

We talk about diagnosis, et cetera, but it’s almost more of a community conversation. Joe 18:38 Yeah, you know, it’s interesting, Soo, I’m doing a county by county visit here in Minnesota where I actually give a presentation on the basics of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Anna 22:46 I actually think you could.

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Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

Assisted Living Communities (no longer preferable to call them Assisted Living Facilities, as we learned on the podcast) are…what, exactly? If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. . If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. .

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

GeriPal

We found their physical environment was drastically different; where those with low feeding tube rates had really a rather beautiful physical environment. Ruth: Also in a few short words, we found similar to our initial study that there were differences in physical environment. What might be contributing?”

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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. That’s a great question. Julien: Lauren, I totally agree with you.

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Buckle Up: DOJ Initiates Rulemaking to Reschedule Marijuana

FDA Law Blog

and its abuse may lead to only moderate or low physical dependence or high psychological dependence. Marijuana’s Psychic or Physiological Dependence Liability HHS concluded that “experimental data and clinical reports demonstrate that chronic, but not acute, use of marijuana can produce both psychic and physical dependence in humans.”