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

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Kate: The problem is we communicate late, we share prognosis late, we elicit goals and values late, so all the time while they’re in the ICU getting prolonged intensive care, we don’t really know that we’re providing goal concordant care, so we wanted to nudge it a little upstream. Emergency rooms. Eric: Okay.

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

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The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. She’s a geriatric nurse practitioner specializing in palliative care, and assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. I was really struck by the difference in care provided to people with advanced dementia.

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

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This question, while providing an opportunity to talk about direct and indirect experiences, can be asked of all patients, and opens the door to conversations about anti-semitism, islamophobia, or anti-Black racism. They said, you know, we refer to mental health, we refer to social work because we have language concordant providers.