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

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AlexSmithMD (still on Twitter at present). The songs about how saving lives is actually a pretty complicated business. But why I decided to look at medical and mental health care and assisted living. Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith. Alex: Yeah. Eric: Nice.

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Medical Cannabis Revisted: A Podcast with David Casarett and Eloise Theisen

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Summary Transcript CME Summary Cannabis is complicated. Eloise is a palliative care NP at Stanford and co-founder of The Radicle Health Clinician Network. Eloise 36:49 I would first present to you what I think your options are. Eric 45:00 And then mental health disorders, schizophrenia, like, how do you think about that?

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Palliative Care for Mental Illness: A Podcast with Dani Chammas and Brent Kious

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We invited Dani Chammas , a palliative care physician and psychiatrist at UCSF (and a frequent guest to the GeriPal podcast), as well as Brent Kious , a psychiatrist at the Huntsman Mental Health Institute, focusing on the management of severe persistent mental illnesses. Eric 00:51 And Alex, who do we have with us today?

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Palliative Care in Liver Disease: A Podcast with Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson

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We get a bit of, in the veteran population, kind of a mix of a lot of mental health issues thrown into these comorbid illnesses, including cirrhosis, but it’s usually the decompensated cirrhotics or the folks with liver cancer and cirrhosis, or one of both. They are complicated. Amy 12:23 I find this one.

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

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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. Leonie: Right.

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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

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So falls, mobility concerns, polypharmacy, comorbidities, nutrition, social support, and mental health. And so these are the kind of things that can be used to provide quality care that is agreed to by both the health community and the patients receiving it, and along the way, help to control our costs.

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The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks

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The more we can notice that, the more we can actually be present for that family and actually see how they’re experiencing it. With the mental health, we pulled out the medical model. Suffering might not even be in their lexicon. Most people don’t use the jargon of suffering.

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