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Medical Cannabis Revisted: A Podcast with David Casarett and Eloise Theisen

GeriPal

That put me in the emergency room. I mean, I think, you know, people talk about withdrawal syndrome and it is an official DSM for diagnosis, but I’m not sure it’s. Eloise 36:49 I would first present to you what I think your options are. David 20:00 Yeah, I think so. There’s.

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Palliative Care in Liver Disease: A Podcast with Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson

GeriPal

We get a bit of, in the veteran population, kind of a mix of a lot of mental health issues thrown into these comorbid illnesses, including cirrhosis, but it’s usually the decompensated cirrhotics or the folks with liver cancer and cirrhosis, or one of both. We know what’s going to happen.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

The idea was to create a robust community-based infrastructure that could help older adults succeed in their homes and communities, whether they were healthy, how to keep them healthy or they were at imminent risk of emergency room visits, hospitalizations, or nursing home placements. To Susan’s point. Do I exercise, do I smoke?

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

And it was really good for my mental and physical… Physical health, obviously, but mental health really. That this is iterative from diagnosis to end-of-life, right? And then three weeks later, you’re in the emergency room and somebody else talks with you for a little while. Juliet: Sure.

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

GeriPal

But what happened when we finally… When he did get the diagnosis, it all fell into place. So if you think about dementia, it’s on the intersection of aging stigma and mental health stigma. Over 90% of the room. The typical utilization of inappropriate hospitalization and emergency room and total cost of care.