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

GeriPal

Rather, most of us live and make decisions in relationship to one another. But once we realize that almost everybody makes decisions in the context of relationships. I’m not going to talk about finances. Eric: Lynn or Anne? But there was an impact on us as a team too. I don’t have capacity a surrogate decides for me.

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

GeriPal

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. So just using in that context of a trusted kind of clinician-patient relationship and seeing how we can better improve shared decision-making.

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

GeriPal

And there is this bidirectional relationship between wealth and health shocks. And then I was inspired by this paper and then really interested in looking at the bidirectional relationship between the two of them. May not even know that the patient has dementia, or they might think that, but it’s not been diagnosed.

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