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Sometimes We Just Can’t Be Ideal

CDOCS

<p><span style="font-size:14px;">The Spear Facially Generated Treatment Planning workshop I took early in my career had a massive impact on the amount of comprehensive dentistry I can now see and diagnose and present to my patients.

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

GeriPal

She directs UCSF MERI’s patient, family, and clinician support with classes and consultation on resiliency, well-being, and grief. Alex: First three words would be, family and history and diversity. And then the people with the other kinds of diagnoses feel left out because we talk about Alzheimer’s all the time.

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Images of the Dying: A Podcast with Wendy MacNaughton, Lingsheng Li, and Frank Ostaseski

GeriPal

They had triple diagnoses, often life threatening illness, but also mental illness and usually some kind of addiction. And so they can go to frankaustdeseski.com or mettainstitute.org and find out about upcoming workshops and that sorts of thing. Or did family members ever like this very intimate portrait of them to share?

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

GeriPal

So, for example, everyone who was diagnosed with an advanced or metastatic lung cancer had a prognosis on the order of months. Eric 16:38 So everybody was diagnosed with an advanced lung cancer sometime in the last twelve weeks and then they were randomized. Here’s what I really want to know. Is that fair to say?

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

GeriPal

Links to Redwing’s poetry workshops: Food for Thought Poetry for Resiliency. Redwing: So I grew up in a pretty intellectual family, but my brother and sister were six and 10 years older than me, and they were always feeding me literature and poetry. Alex: It sounds like that might be a part of the workshops that you run.

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

GeriPal

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. Lauren 19:01 Yeah, so in our second paper, we asked that exact question. What is your function? And do you die?

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