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

GeriPal

But the thing that really motivates me is seeing, you know, and trying to manage later stage, you know, we can call them complications of people who haven’t had a diagnosis are now really in, you know, a world of complexity around other conditions, around managing life and managing practical things.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

Should she be treated non-operatively, with aggressive symptom management? And we looked at the electronic health records at both of those hospital systems, the MGB network, folks who had fee-for-service Medicare coverage from October 2015 to about September 2017, 6,800 patients. We’re available, palliative care.

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

GeriPal

Or have electronic health record prompts so people remember to ask it? Eric: Well, why do you think doctors hate this so much? Emmy: Following up later, they stayed in our observation unit overnight to seek physical therapy, occupational therapy, get hooked up with case management, the functional side that they really needed.

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