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

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Summary Transcript Summary The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) concluded back in 2000 that there is insufficient evidence to recommend for or against routine screening for dementia in older adults. If so, how do we screen and who do we screen? What should we use to screen individuals? Cognitive screening.

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RCT of Default Inpatient PC Consults: Kate Courtright & Scott Halpern

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Eric: Utilization, utilization, utilization. Did they screen charts? Those two things together, no increase in mortality but increase in hospice utilization, it doesn’t prove that palliative care is goal-concordant, but it’s certainly suggestive. Eric: Yeah. Scott: That’s what it was. Eric: Okay.

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Dignity at the End of Life: A Podcast with Harvey Chochinov

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Our early studies were looking at things like, desire for death, and syndromal depression, and screening for depression and anxiety, and will to live. The specifics of how it does that depend on the population in which it’s implemented, and the outcome measure that is utilized. We examine, we diagnose, we fix.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

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Eric: And looking back at that time, what do you think the healthcare system could have done to help with that? With your journey, with your dad’s journey- Diane: They could have diagnosed him earlier. They could have diagnosed him earlier. So that’s I think diagnoses. And we find out, oh, there is no demand.