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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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Prevention of Dementia: Kristine Yaffe

GeriPal

It’s just another example of, I think, that there’s a little extra special sauce there in the Beeson program. Physical activity is a big one. Eric: Kristine, before we jump into the topic of prevention of dementia, you’ve had an incredible career that’s focused on this issue. That’s really falling apart.

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Finding the Right Clinic: A Guide to Quality Care

Plum Health

Your insights could help someone else in their healthcare journey! A clinic is a medical facility where healthcare professionals provide specialized medical care to patients. They also have a team of healthcare professionals such as doctors, nurses, medical assistants, and administrative staff.

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Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison

GeriPal

The ability to appreciate, recognize, and engage with music is preserved even until late stages of dementia, and Theresa is examining how music can be useful from the time of diagnosis, not only for the person with dementia, but their caregivers. My voice is nothing special. I think that’s more palliative than me. I forgot about.

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Who should get Palliative Care? Kate Courtright

GeriPal

We talk with Kate about how despite how far we’ve come in palliative care research, we still don’t have answers to some fundamental questions, such as: Who should get specialized palliative care? By diagnosis? Eric: Our outpatient service does have guides around diagnosis and prognosis. Or there’s physical symptom needs.

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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

GeriPal

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. So I really opted to specialize in lung cancer because I thought that was the appropriate population to build a supportive and palliative care research agenda. Jennifer: Thanks.

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Managing Urinary Symptoms and UTI’s in Older Adults

GeriPal

We’ve invited some very special guests to talk about the lower urinary tract – Christine Kistler and Scott Bauer. . But really those urinary tract signs and symptoms should be driving your diagnosis. ” So there was that over diagnosis that’s happened. On today’s podcast, we are gonna bust some of those myths.