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

GeriPal

What should we use to screen individuals? Cause it’s tricky to just implement per se and say, hey, we’re gonna screen everybody, you know, use a population health approach or a age cutoff and just start screening everybody if you don’t have those next steps figured out as well. Who should get it if anyone?

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Vaccine Misinformation, Pseudoscience, & the Frailty of Community Health

Physician's Weekly

As a family physician, my days are filled with caring for individuals and families across the lifespan and in multiple healthcare settings. These forces are not just impacting individual choices; they are eroding the very foundation of our collective health , as well as trust in career scientists, institutions, and the scientific process.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

But a lot of that is because older adults don’t do as well after injury, because of physiologic changes. If they’re in a major car crash, they’re going to have more long-term complications probably than a 20-year-old would. That’s where it really gets to this individual risks and balances, individual situation.

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