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

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Lastly, Soo Borson is a self-described primary care leaning geriatric psychiatrist, developer of the Mini-Cog, and co-leads the CDC-funded BOLD Center on Early Detection of Dementia. Alex 00:09 We are delighted to welcome S oo Borson, who is a primary care oriented geriatric psychiatrist. Who do we have with us today?

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

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Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome for the first time, guest Bill Ander e ch, who’s a primary care internist and senior scholar in Sutter Health’s program in M edicine and Human Values, a program that he co-founded with a former UCSF faculty member, Al Johnson. That makes it really special for them and for me.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

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Alex: But the longer title’s Ethno-Geriatrics and Special Populations. In what moral universe is a federal government deeply subsidizing my housing and not subsidizing that of my patients? There’s often both a floor and a ceiling, because let’s say they have a pension or they have government benefits.

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

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” And I could tell you that’s a lot for a government agency to hear. I do think it’s a good idea that a primary care doc or an oncologist is bought in to the fact that I am going to be the one prescribing controlled substances, and one way to do that is with a referral. We hear that all the time now.