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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

GeriPal

I think … There’s so few, seriously, from the hospital system and the pathologizing systems to the more social care intervention work that Susan and I really do. And then the people with the other kinds of diagnoses feel left out because we talk about Alzheimer’s all the time. She had been included.

Community 101
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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

GeriPal

Alex 00:34 We are delighted to welcome back Jennifer Tem e l, who is a thoracic oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. So, for example, everyone who was diagnosed with an advanced or metastatic lung cancer had a prognosis on the order of months. Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease.

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Health and Wealth Shocks: Lauren Hunt, Rebecca Rodin, Tsai-Chin Cho

GeriPal

But from our clinical work, many of us are familiar with people with dementia who experience sudden shocks to their health, think hip fracture, think hospitalization for pneumonia. And then when you see clinically patients coming into hospital, they’ll have, you know, they’ll be admitted for aspiration pneumonia.

Illness 93
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Poetry & Palliative Care: Podcast with Mike Rabow and Redwing Keyssar

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Mike Rabow shares his award winning poem about coming out to the world about his diagnosis with multiple sclerosis. . Links to Redwing’s poetry workshops: Food for Thought Poetry for Resiliency. Redwing: When you’re diagnosed with cancer, the first thing you think about is when you’re going to die. AlexSmithMD .