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

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Screening for addressing hearing loss should be an integral part of what we do in geriatrics and palliative care, but it often is either a passing thought or completely ignored. How to screen for hearing loss. On today’s podcast, we talk to Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen about hearing loss in geriatrics and palliative care.

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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

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And I think of the analogy of, like, cancer screening. The stopping the cancer screening doesn’t have that same sort of momentum. In our early studies in the same nursing home population, we found about 70% of residents had a deprescribing event of antihypertensives during their stay. You know, we got to prevent cancer.

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Sleep problems and Insomnia in Serious Illness: A Podcast wtih Cathy Alessi and Brienne Miner

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Alex: Here, I thought it was just like a relationship tension and breakup song. So actually, I use a depression screen and I also use an anxiety screen. Alex: That’s good- Brienne: We all want to have that sort of sleep that washes us clean and we wake up with a clean slate and some of us don’t. Thank you, Alex.

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

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Panelists Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates have no relationships to disclose. And one person even called the system 75 times and that was just a light-bulb event for me. We do the breakdown of the sentinel event, but we don’t do it right then. I had no idea that people were calling 911 that much sometimes.

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

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We also explored several questions with them, including how to define trauma, its prevalence in older adults, the impact of past traumatic experiences, the potential triggers of trauma screening, and the application of trauma-informed principles in clinical practice. So there’s an event or a series of events.

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The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks

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Panelists BJ Miller and Naomi Saks have no relationships to disclose. ” So there’s this element too, of what’s suffering in relationship to others, and can we compare? It’s the relationships to the world. It really depends on the person, their relationship, what’s going on.”

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Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison

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Theresa 28:12 In 20 years, I have once seen somebody deliberately choose a song that was so traumatic, I had to actually put in my very first adverse event report. Relationships are usually more complicated. You might see me on the TV screens next year. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. We knew her when.

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