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

GeriPal

But the thing that really motivates me is seeing, you know, and trying to manage later stage, you know, we can call them complications of people who haven’t had a diagnosis are now really in, you know, a world of complexity around other conditions, around managing life and managing practical things.

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

GeriPal

Well, as a kick off to this year’s first in-person State of the Science plenary, held in conjunction with the closing Saturday session of the AAHPM/HPNA Annual Assembly, 3 randomized clinical trials were presented. Kate: So it was an embedded alert in the electronic health record and they just clicked those two answers very quickly.

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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. Corita 09:39 Yeah, so we used the electronic health record, I think, in support. And so we did a similar intervention but using electronic means. But yeah, it’s complicated.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

Alex 15:13 This is really complicated. So elderly people who aspirated, got pneumonia, had an mi, didn’t get hauled off to the emergency room on an ambulance crew so they could die in the ER. And he had a deadly fear of being institutionalized, based on his previous present experience. We can make this better.

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Buckle Up: DOJ Initiates Rulemaking to Reschedule Marijuana

FDA Law Blog

The Attorney General, after considering HHS’ recommendations, “concludes that there is, at present, substantial evidence that marijuana does not warrant control under schedule I.” Public comments must be submitted electronically or postmarked on or before July 22, 2024, 60 days after publication in the Federal Register. NPRM at 44,619.

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

And I think the advanced planning debate is really a question of, how do we help this very complicated situation? And then three weeks later, you’re in the emergency room and somebody else talks with you for a little while. We see how hard it is. We see when they don’t understand. We wonder if they were told.

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