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

GeriPal

So, it’s a critical component if you really want to have conversations about goals of care, you want to have conversations about the types of treatments that the person wishes to have, or doesn’t wish to have, and to really engage the person and the family in these conversation. Is that right? Is that right, Nick?

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Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold

GeriPal

And especially for those who may have nontraditional families. I think if you’re from a nontraditional family, it’s very important to make sure that people understand who you would want to talk to. We also saw a lot of conflict in families because of that. Bob: So I think it’s important. Rebecca: Agreed.

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

GeriPal

Eric: And we have Tasce Bongiovanni, who is an acute care trauma surgeon at UCSF and the San Francisco General Hospital. And for that reason, there was actually an enormous lawsuit, and the manufacturer was fined, now I think 20 years ago, in the millions and millions of dollars for off-label prescribing. Nisha: Thank you so much.

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Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy

GeriPal

And so we do see hospital admissions for heat exposure and certainly cardiovascular and respiratory problems related to air pollution with climate change and also cognitive problems. What’s our role in changing the healthcare system, in our own healthcare system. What does that actually look like? We really do not.

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COVID Updates: A Podcast with Peter Chin-Hong and Lona Mody

GeriPal

But it feels the same in that I was on call a lot over the summer, and I took care of a lot of people behind those hospital walls. And we don’t see hospitals being strained as much anymore. The impact on families. But turns out that Jan1 and its family are all very similar. So that’s changed. The impact on.