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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

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So, the question becomes, what, if anything, should we do differently in the primary care setting to diagnose the disease? We address the following questions with Nate: Has anything changed for the primary care doctor when diagnosing Alzheimers? But these tests were never designed to diagnose. Does a good history matter anymore?

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Involving the inner circle: Emily Largent, Anne Rohlfing, Lynn Flint & Anne Kelly

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I’m not going to talk about finances. The post Involving the inner circle: Emily Largent, Anne Rohlfing, Lynn Flint & Anne Kelly appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Eric: Lynn or Anne? But there was an impact on us as a team too. I’m the doctor.

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

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Someone who’s healthy in their 60s and just got diagnosed with diabetes, yeah, they might benefit, if they have a very long life expectancy, to prevent that decline in kidney function. Those have a very, very long time horizon. Most of which, almost all of which were non-clinical, right? And have a great night, everybody.

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

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Eric 12:03 I’m interested in that because I hear a lot about people losing their, like, one way, like people get health issue and then lose all their finances, especially in the U.S. May not even know that the patient has dementia, or they might think that, but it’s not been diagnosed. So let’s put a pin in that.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

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How is it financed and what comes next? I think Bruce can speak to that, I think, 30-year gap in finances. You can broaden the scope of diagnoses. The finances, for us… Our goal is, really, to break even, or even lose a little bit of money, that’s okay, with the goal being that this is very patient-centered.

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