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

GeriPal

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. There’s a Boguts case, a patient with anorexia who utilized medical aid and dying. It’s not a defined entity in the dsm.

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