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

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Summary Transcript Summary The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) concluded back in 2000 that there is insufficient evidence to recommend for or against routine screening for dementia in older adults. If so, how do we screen and who do we screen? What should we use to screen individuals? Cognitive screening.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

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Or somebody who has other physical cognitive problems at any age. Eric: But before we jump into talking to your patients about driving retirement cessation, let’s talk about what is the role of the healthcare professional in this at all? We and many others have tried to come up with a short, validated screening tool.

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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

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And then the duo, physical and cognitive function, those are the seven that… Alex: Oh, that’s a good way of remembering it. Because a lot of my colleagues, who are like transplant coordinators for example, are asking, “Can you help us better screened for which older adults would be fit enough to go for transplant?

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

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I had it on my screen. And as a resident, I just was drawn, similar to many oncology clinicians and fellows, to just be traumatic and difficult experience of patients with blood cancers during prolonged and intense hospitalizations, where they experience a lot of physical symptoms, emotional trauma related to the diagnoses.

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

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It is a screening? And so then it would be nice to have those other than the chaplains, be aware of the spiritual component and then just ask some basic screening questions. And the screening questions would just allow you to know that. Who does the assessments, who does screening? I guess FICA is not as cool as SKY.

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

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Ongoing reports from patients about anti-Asian hate experiences Should clinicians screen for Anti-Asian hate? question used to screen for domestic violence. I had fun trying to make a danceable version with electronic drums for the audio-only podcast. And in our reporting center, we tracked physical assaults, verbal harassment.

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

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And it was really good for my mental and physicalPhysical health, obviously, but mental health really. So I’m just going to share on my screen. Tell me what would you… Juliet: Fully Integrated electronic medical records system that made this very easy for clinicians to do. Eric: On EHR?

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