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Insights into the design, development and implementation of a novel digital health tool for skilled birth attendants to support quality maternity care in Kenya

BMJ

In its best use case, such technology would provide the foundation of person-level digital information systems that can be used to accurately collect and use data in at two critical levels: in real-time to improve individual patient outcomes, and aggregated to monitor the health status of a population, i.e. the big numbers.

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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

GeriPal

This whole conference that Ab puts on, and all of the tools and resources that he provides people and families with dementia are about, how do you build on the remaining strengths? There’s a whole age-friendly hospital systems that we are supposed to start our journey and keep going. She had been included. But we have to.

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Surgical Communication: A Podcast with Gretchen Schwarze, Justin Clapp and Alexis Colley

GeriPal

Instead, what if your surgeon told you that the operation she was discussing could help with only 4 things: live longer, feel better, prevent disability, or obtain a diagnosis? It can help prevent disability, or it can make a diagnosis and that’s it. We hope you enjoy this episode. Gretchen: It can help you live longer.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

GeriPal

Alex 00:34 We are delighted to welcome back Jennifer Tem e l, who is a thoracic oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease. So at our cancer center, we have physicians, advanced practice providers. As Pahlavi said, you could refer to other providers.

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Health and Wealth Shocks: Lauren Hunt, Rebecca Rodin, Tsai-Chin Cho

GeriPal

But from our clinical work, many of us are familiar with people with dementia who experience sudden shocks to their health, think hip fracture, think hospitalization for pneumonia. And then when you see clinically patients coming into hospital, they’ll have, you know, they’ll be admitted for aspiration pneumonia.

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Poetry & Palliative Care: Podcast with Mike Rabow and Redwing Keyssar

GeriPal

Mike Rabow shares his award winning poem about coming out to the world about his diagnosis with multiple sclerosis. . To the deeper emotions – of loss and grief, of wonder and transcendence – that are at the heart of the complex care we provide. Links to Redwing’s poetry workshops: Food for Thought Poetry for Resiliency.