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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. Ana chodos, what should I be?

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Demystifying the Role of HHS and ASPE in Guiding Federal Aging Policy and Priorities with Dr. Tisamarie Sherry

GeriPal

For the policy buffs and policy newbies out there, we hope this podcast is an essential primer to government in action. There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations. We talk about: . The structure of federal agencies and how they coordinate.

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

GeriPal

AlexSmithMD (still on Twitter at present). The songs about how saving lives is actually a pretty complicated business. Sheryl: Largely the people who live there as opposed to government funds. So, how do we establish standards so that you even get the basic care you need for your cognitive or physical functional issues?

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When do we learn to treat our doctors properly?

Tiny Physician

The bystanders of the patient who were present at that time understood the efforts taken by the doctors and told the treating team that the doctors did their best and it was the patient’s fate. Postpartum hemorrhage is an unfortunate and well-known complication of delivery. Nevertheless, she succumbed to the massive bleeding.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

He was a person with schizophrenia, he was a person who used drugs and he presented in pain crisis to our shelter. So, you know, I just wanted to present a couple options and give you a sense of, you know, the background for both. How do you actually physically find them if that’s the case? Who, his name was Terry.

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What is going on with MAID in Canada? Bill Gardner, Leonie Herx, & Sonu Gaind

GeriPal

So we’re going to be talking about this complicated topic that a lot of people have differing opinions to and potentially very strong opinions, medical aid in dying. One thing I would like to add here is both Sonu and Leonie presented this as something that lacks boundaries. Eric: Bill. Bill: Yeah.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

Alex 15:13 This is really complicated. And he had a deadly fear of being institutionalized, based on his previous present experience. Eric 42:11 But how much of it is like Winston Churchill, like, democracy is the worst form of government. So I think that was a factor also that they thought, like, this is fixable.