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

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Lingsheng (and I) recently published studies on this in JAMA Internal Medicine , and JAGS. Ongoing reports from patients about anti-Asian hate experiences Should clinicians screen for Anti-Asian hate? And in our reporting center, we tracked physical assaults, verbal harassment.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

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I was helped into a wheelchair kind of rushed to the emergency room, which was not far away because I was on the medical school campus. And I was an internal medicine resident. One of the patients I spoke to really said this quite well. I heard this loud click. I couldn’t move any of my body.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

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The idea was to create a robust community-based infrastructure that could help older adults succeed in their homes and communities, whether they were healthy, how to keep them healthy or they were at imminent risk of emergency room visits, hospitalizations, or nursing home placements. To Susan’s point. Eric: Wait, county 911?

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

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Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Care Ecosystem.

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AI for surrogate decision making?!? Dave Wendler, Jenny Blumenthal-Barby, Teva Brender

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Surrogates often either dont know what patients would want, or think they know but are wrong, or make choices that align with their own preferences rather than the patients. Alex 01:29 And we’re delighted to welcome Teva Brender, who’s a third year resident in internal medicine at UCSF. Can we do better?