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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. You can also put it into as you’re discussing other, like at an annual visit, like, oh, have you been sleeping well, you know, have you been vaccinated? And you can work at different levels of prevention. So it’s never too late.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

In terms of their risk, in terms of how we think of preventive health, as we think of screening, all of those things, I would turn around to the geriatricians and say, “Check your implicit bias. Folks who were first homeless after 50, there was an event, and usually those events could be described in one of four categories.

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Redefining Alzheimer’s Disease: A Podcast with Heather Whitson, Jason Karlawish, Lon Schneider

GeriPal

Lon: Let me add to that with a bit of a disclosure, and that is we are NIA funded to develop amyloid vaccines, and I do that and I endorse that. I said, “Let’s give a try to amyloid vaccines that will essentially bust plaques in people who are asymptomatic, maybe even in people who don’t have plaques.”

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