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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

My great-grandmother in particular had a very profound hearing loss and I don’t know, as a kid, I was obsessed with taking them apart and wanted to do more of the engineering side. And honestly in undergrad I was like, “Engineering is really hard. I don’t like this anymore.”

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Nudges for Prognosis and Comfort Care in the ICU: Kate Courtright, Scott Halpern, & Jaspal Singh

GeriPal

The events are conditions that’ll be set into place unless some active choice to the contrary is chosen. Has to somehow be, I think nudging has to almost be engineered into the decision making process, which is again, if I have were to imagine how I see rounding, I would probably design it very differently, right?

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

I think people, most people, unless they come from some kind of quantitative background, if they’re a health services researcher, an engineer or something, sometimes numbers really speak to those patients, but most patients don’t fit into those kinds of categories. Samir: Yeah.

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Optimizing Nutrition in Aging: A Podcast with Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston

GeriPal

So if you already have a condition, you might be able to prevent events. People are also using YouTube specifically, but social media as its own search engine. It’s ideal to have a good, healthy, balanced diet through your whole life, but it’s never too late. And you can work at different levels of prevention.

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