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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

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Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. 80% died exactly where they wanted to and 83% were reconnected to family or friends through a psychosocial support system that we put into place.

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

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If it’s continuing and it’s getting worse and maybe they have some swelling in the legs, there are some subtle findings on the echo, but really think for a second, could this be this really common cardiovascular condition, echocardiogram, maybe even a referral to a cardiologist? A pill organizer, having family.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

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Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. One of them is Karen Steinhauser’s Annals of Internal Medicine paper on, In Search of a Good Death. Rehabbed to Death. Ruth: Aw, thanks. My question is, why this study, and why now?

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Dignity at the End of Life: A Podcast with Harvey Chochinov

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Harvey is probably best known for his work in developing dignity therapy, a psychological intervention designed specifically to address many of the psychological, existential, and spiritual challenges that patients and their families face as death approaches. But once I got into medicine, I found myself attracted to the field of psychiatry.

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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

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Alex 00:48 And we’re delighted to welcome back Josh Briscoe, who’s a palliative care doc at the Durham VA Medical center in Duke and blogs at Notes from a Family Meeting. And it was very clear, and she could now no longer recognize her family members. And the family says, dad would never want to live like this.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

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Administration on Aging connecting you to services for older adults and their families California’s Master Plan for Aging New York’s Master Plan for Aging Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. And that referral can be done in real time, a soft handoff. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith.

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Pragmatic Trial of ACP: Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson

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Today we are delighted to welcome Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, and Danny Scerpella, who conducted a pragmatic trial of advance care planning (ACP) in primary care practices; and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who wrote an accompanying commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine. I’m hearing family and caregivers. Eric 02:32 Great, Alex.