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Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

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Summary Transcript Summary Diabetes is common. When I’m on nursing home call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar value. When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. Goldilocks zone).

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

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Meg is a researcher and professor of Gerontological Nursing and a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner in the School of Nursing at UCSF. And he liked some of what I was doing, which was really on diabetes and hearing loss. Meg: Well, to be honest with you, this was a long time ago. Alex: Can I tell an anecdote here?

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

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Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. Katie, welcome back to GeriPal. Bragging rights. Alex: Yeah. Should they?

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