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

GeriPal

Meg is a researcher and professor of Gerontological Nursing and a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner in the School of Nursing at UCSF. And there’s multiple survival analyses looking at incident dementia, and hearing loss is strong, independently associated with the time to event dementia.

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

GeriPal

Not just with our aging and independent services, but also with our behavioral health services, with our public health services, with our medical care services, to really have everyone see older people as part of their work. 60% of all medical costs have nothing to do with your health diagnosis. And then, the system responds in turn.

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Jumpstarting Goals of Care Convos: Erin Kross, Bob Lee, and Ruth Engelberg

GeriPal

So somebody had to write something down in the medical record that talked about goals of care, and there was no template, there was no form that you filled out for this. We really said anything that’s looking at overarching goals of medical care. You just have to be talking about the overarching goals of medical care.