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

GeriPal

What hasn’t been shown, Eric, is that if you apply tools like this, clinical outcomes down the road are better for patients. They aren’t going to be better unless we have health systems that actually respond to detection of cognitive impairment with good care plans and follow through, as Joe was talking about.

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Should Palliative Care be in the Survivorship Business? A Podcast with Laura Petrillo, Laura Shoemaker

GeriPal

I started out being interested in prognostic communication, and I work now in a cancer center, in the cancer center at mgh, where the early palliative care trials happened. And we’re still early palliative care trials are on. To learn more about CME for other GeriPal episodes, click here. Are you a hammer? Like, we just.

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Medical use and misuse of psychoactive prescription medications among US youth and young adults: An Introduction

BMJ

It is imperative for policy makers, school administrators, healthcare professionals, and parents to become aware of these emerging dangers and take appropriate steps, like what has been done for the opioid epidemic. Fam Med Community Health. the misuse of so-called “study drugs”, or prescription stimulants, on college campuses).

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