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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

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Kate: Yeah, some of the thoughts I’ve had in thinking about this: we did not require communication, training and education of the clinicians. I am part of some other work in the ICU world looking at time-limited trials and trying to better define what those are, how we talk about them, how we talk about them with patients and families.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

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The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Whereas the home with the low rate of feeding tube use involved families in decision making. Whereas the high-intensity nursing homes tended not to have a process or did not include families. There was a hesitancy to engage black families.

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

GeriPal

Like, do you think maybe, you know, let’s educate. And because of this encounter, this patient went to the emergency room twice due to having panic episodes that felt like heart attacks. And also the language concordance has been an issue, I think, for both in person and telehealth care.