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

GeriPal

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. Because every once in a while, the local town primary care provider will attend those presentations. I’m busy.

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Bingo Resilience

StorytellERdoc

Of dropping everything at that very moment to be at their parent's side during an Emergency Room visit. It had presented soon after she had eaten a BLT sandwich for lunch. We laughed together at some of our small talk while I finished my history-taking and began my physical exam. Her physical exam was perfect.

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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. And when I presented it to the transplant team, they said, “This is interesting, but we don’t need that.

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Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

AlexSmithMD (still on Twitter at present). So, the top two were that assisted living communities, in those communities the resident should be present during assessment and care planning. So, how do we establish standards so that you even get the basic care you need for your cognitive or physical functional issues? Transcript.

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

GeriPal

Sarah 24:24 See, I usually always present it as these are things we should think of. This is a normal thing we need to talk about and not present it as something, oh, because of how sick you are, we’re going to talk about this, really try to normalize it. Eric 24:21 Is it any different than other diseases? Eric 43:12 Okay.

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Surgical Communication: A Podcast with Gretchen Schwarze, Justin Clapp and Alexis Colley

GeriPal

I love this series of articles because each presents a component of a practical, patient-centered approach to patient-surgeon communication and decision making, and language surgeons (and surgical trainees) can start using in their next patient visit. ” And he says, “It’s in the emergency room.”

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

GeriPal

We found their physical environment was drastically different; where those with low feeding tube rates had really a rather beautiful physical environment. Ruth: Also in a few short words, we found similar to our initial study that there were differences in physical environment. What does the physical environment look like?