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

GeriPal

What should we use to screen individuals? Joe 18:38 Yeah, you know, it’s interesting, Soo, I’m doing a county by county visit here in Minnesota where I actually give a presentation on the basics of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Who should get it if anyone? What happens after they test positive? I’m busy.

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

GeriPal

Well, as a kick off to this year’s first in-person State of the Science plenary, held in conjunction with the closing Saturday session of the AAHPM/HPNA Annual Assembly, 3 randomized clinical trials were presented. Eric: I think about it as the first one to address individuals’ curative therapy. Emergency rooms.

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

GeriPal

I’m wondering, you talked about that patient who was really isolated and coming to the emergency room. No, I mean, I think I had the initial feeling or thought about this being present after I learned about it and were thoughtful with senior mentors about it. Or was that just the lingering conversations? You just knew it?

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Palliative Care in Liver Disease: A Podcast with Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson

GeriPal

As this patient has an x percent mortality in three months, there’s a little more nuance to it, and it isn’t really applied to the individual. Sarah 24:24 See, I usually always present it as these are things we should think of. Can you come and be in our clinic once a week? Sarah 24:19 Well, I don’t know.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

Why is that important in the emergency room? Actually, our training as emergency physicians is mostly to resuscitate to acute care. Alex 10:52 And did you have algorithms you’d present to them, like given this patient’s circumstance, these are recommendations? Eric 06:50 And Fernanda. No, no, no. That is safe.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

Eric: So probably a very uncommon circumstance where an outpatient provider who’s had this conversation, who’s known the individual for a very long time actually goes to the ICU, communicates with the family and potentially communicates with the ICU providers about who this person is, what’s important to them.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

And so the key there is, of course these were prospectively measured where patients were called every month from 1998 through actually the present day among those who are still alive. Lauren: Although again, still thinking about what that means for an individual older adult is really important. So, that part was not surprising.