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Middle to Older Age Latinas Experiences Across the Cervical Cancer Continuum: Screening, Diagnosis, Treatment and Impact [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

Cervical cancer screening rates among middle to older age Latinas (>45yrs) - roughly 6.5 Participants were recruited via electronic healthcare records, community tabling events, and social media efforts. Only a few received stage 1 diagnoses. million people in the U.S. – lag behind.

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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

GeriPal

I had it on my screen. Jennifer: Yeah, so I think as all the listeners of this podcast know, and I know he did do a podcast with you guys when he was still able to verbally communicate, with Randy Curtis’ diagnosis of, I keep wanting to say AML, ALS. Maybe I could turn to both of you how you got interested in this.

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New Prognostic Models for Older Adults: Alex Lee, James Deardorff, Sei Lee

GeriPal

So if you can think about certain decisions like continuing to screen for certain cancers like colon cancer or breast cancer, or how strict you should control diabetes or blood pressures. We know that a lot of times with cancer screening, you don’t actually get benefits right away and it can cause potential harms right away.

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Redefining Alzheimer’s Disease: A Podcast with Heather Whitson, Jason Karlawish, Lon Schneider

GeriPal

If you are interested in learning more about the draft guidelines and the response from AGS to these guidelines, check out the following links: Revised Criteria for Diagnosis and Staging of Alzheimer’s Disease: Alzheimer’s Association Workgroup AGS’s response to the revised criteria Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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Poetry & Palliative Care: Podcast with Mike Rabow and Redwing Keyssar

GeriPal

Mike Rabow shares his award winning poem about coming out to the world about his diagnosis with multiple sclerosis. . Redwing: When you’re diagnosed with cancer, the first thing you think about is when you’re going to die. Poetry helps us grapple with our own experiences of illness. Why not live as long as possible?

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Ageism and Elections: Louise Aronson and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

Ken Covinsky reminds us that we should not be making a diagnosis based on what we see on TV, and that if a patient’s daughter expressed a concern that their parent “wasn’t right,” we would conduct an in depth evaluation that might last an hour. Other people say, oh, no, this is just normal cognitive aging.

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