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

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Summary Transcript Summary The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) concluded back in 2000 that there is insufficient evidence to recommend for or against routine screening for dementia in older adults. If so, how do we screen and who do we screen? What should we use to screen individuals? Cognitive screening.

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

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And I think the advanced planning debate is really a question of, how do we help this very complicated situation? So one that the primary outcome was supposed to be documentation, which it improved documentation, it wasn’t powered to actually look at any utilization or hard outcomes. So I’m just going to share on my screen.

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