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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

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Alex 00:20 And she’s professor of family medicine at USC, deputator at JAGS, and co lead of the bold center of Excellence in early detection of dementia. Well, because they’re hard on people with dementia and they can be very hard on families, and they’re a form of crisis. Is that right, Soo? Soo 00:32 Thanks.

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Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

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Elissa: Well, I don’t know what you’re doing in your practice, but I think you just touched on a lot of the trickiness around mental health assessment at end of life or in the context of serious illness. Or is it that I’m just not screening? If you’re low energy, well, is that the illness or depression?

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Palliative Care for Mental Illness: A Podcast with Dani Chammas and Brent Kious

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So in those cases, can we adopt an approach to mental health care that centers primarily around quality of life of patients and their families? Dani 15:02 Speaking to the fact that we are talking about such a massive array of illnesses, of presentations of symptom severity, and trying to speak in generalizations.

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