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

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Alex 00:20 And she’s professor of family medicine at USC, deputator at JAGS, and co lead of the bold center of Excellence in early detection of dementia. It can’t be diagnosed and adios. Well, because they’re hard on people with dementia and they can be very hard on families, and they’re a form of crisis.

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

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Just today (June 17th) as we record this podcast: Ezra Klein released a wonderful interview with Sarah McBride , the first openly transgender member of congress A judge ruled that cuts to NIH grants focused on minority groups, including transgender people, were illegal and ordered the government to restore funding. Jace 30:17 Absolutely.

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

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Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. They may have few family members, live alone. I called my parents, and we talked.

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

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2021 Association of Hospice Profit Status With Family Caregivers’ Reported Care Experiences. I’m very proud of the work that we do every day and we take care of patients and families no matter where they live or who they are to help them meet their end of life goals. How do we make this work for patients and families?

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

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What happened is that firstly, in terms of my clinical background, my background is psycho-oncology, so that’s working with patients with cancer and their families, including when they’re going through periods. So being well and also potentially periods of dying. But that was separate from MAID. Eric: Thank you Bill.

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The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medicine: Guest Bob Wachter

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The results were that the chat bots got the diagnoses right and had an escalation strategy that was better than the doctors, as judged by blinded specialists reading the transcripts. You and I would listen to a suggested list of diagnoses and say, “That’s a reasonable idea. They had no idea. ” Alex: Wow.

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

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And the government can do something about that?!? We focus on function and mortality because these are outcomes that really are important to patients and families. May not even know that the patient has dementia, or they might think that, but it’s not been diagnosed. Eric 42:13 What do you want the government to do?

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