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

GeriPal

Alex 00:20 And she’s professor of family medicine at USC, deputator at JAGS, and co lead of the bold center of Excellence in early detection of dementia. Well, because they’re hard on people with dementia and they can be very hard on families, and they’re a form of crisis. Is that right, Soo? Soo 00:32 Thanks.

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COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and related factors among primary health care workers in a district of Istanbul: A cross-sectional study from Turkey

BMJ

There are 44 family health centers, including 158 family physicians and 165 family health workers working in the district. A sample was not selected as it was aimed to reach all 323 people working in family health centers in the district. 150 (54.3) p<0.001 Doctor 83 (65.9) 126 (45.7) 162 (58.7) 228 (82.6) 193 (69.9)

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

LaVera: I trained at UCSF in family medicine. Did your intervention Lexy actually have any effect on utilization, which again, somewhat argue is the reason that services palliative care get funded? Eric: I’m going to take one more tangent because I’d love to hear from this. You started off as a physician, right?

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