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Prevention of Dementia: Kristine Yaffe

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Should do medicine?” ” Because I loved internal medicine. I just thought there was so much we could learn and offer from every sense, from the clinical point of view, from the family point of view, from prevention, from treatment, epidemiology, et cetera. Should I do neuro? But something with behavior.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

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Summary Transcript CME Summary Many older adults lose decision-making capacity during serious illnesses, and a significant percentage lack family or friends to assist with decisions. How should we care for unrepresented individuals in inpatient and outpatient settings? Why not use the older term unbefriended? Is that fair?

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

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Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . VA “gets” the importance of storytelling in medicine, without the need for reams of research to back it up. So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families.

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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

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We talk about what is heart failure, particularly HFpEF, how we treat it (including the use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2’s), and how we should apply guidelines to individual patients, especially those with multimorbidity who are taking a lot of other medications. But we’re not perfect individuals.

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Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

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So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. And so I really gain that and I love the chorus words that she uses in this song.

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Influence of Hospital Culture on Intensity of Care: Liz Dzeng

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On this podcast we talk about her paper in JAMA Internal Medicine which studied three hospitals that varied in the intensity of care they provided to seriously ill patients. For example, here’s a quote from somebody at a high intensity hospital, “There’s a culture from the top of the healthcare system down.

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Lucid Episodes: Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi & Andrew Peterson

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Today we talk about lucid episodes and what they might mean to the person with dementia, their family and loved ones, to philosophers, to clinicians, to neuroscientists. Particularly patients, families. Alex 06:05 And, oh, for that family, it was so meaningful. That their loved one is in there. Eric 01:34 Yeah. Eric 06:07 Yeah.

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