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

GeriPal

I’m a dementia specialist, and so what I was experiencing was that many people were coming to see me to get a diagnosis of a very straightforward case of mild Alzheimer’s or moderate Alzheimer’s disease, whose doctors had told them there was nothing wrong with them or that their memory was better than my own, says the doctor.

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Fever FAQs (contd.)- Signs, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment

Rao Doctor

In case you have missed it, click below to read- FEVER FAQ- Part 1 Fever Diagnosis: How is your health assessed? When assessing a fever, we doctors employ a systematic approach to ensure accurate diagnosis and effective management. Fever is a common indication that the body is fighting off infection.

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Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

GeriPal

Elissa: Well, I don’t know what you’re doing in your practice, but I think you just touched on a lot of the trickiness around mental health assessment at end of life or in the context of serious illness. A lot of those symptoms of depression can also be attributed to different kinds of physical symptoms.

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Palliative Care for Mental Illness: A Podcast with Dani Chammas and Brent Kious

GeriPal

It’s one of the core things that we think about palliative care is you got the physical, psychological, social and spiritual symptoms. So here in California, if somebody uses end of life options, wants to die, and I’m doing their mental health assessment, I do have to make sure that they have decision making capacity.

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