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

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COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults. And honestly in undergrad I was like, “Engineering is really hard. Over-the-counter hearing aids: What will it mean for older Americans?

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Improving Nursing Home Quality: Jasmine Travers, Alice Bonner, Isaac Longobardi, and Mike Wasserman

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Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. The pushback is we can’t find folks. ” Who would stay on that plane?

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

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We didn’t make them communicate it, but we focused them on it, which makes them more likely to then utilize that information. 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?