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

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Summary Transcript Summary The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) concluded back in 2000 that there is insufficient evidence to recommend for or against routine screening for dementia in older adults. If so, how do we screen and who do we screen? What should we use to screen individuals? Cognitive screening.

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

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Thomas: But the person did screen and used a little bit of the and Social Network Scale and the UCLA Loneliness Scale. Like I said, the patient screened positive for it. You can use it on one thing to either have government, individual providers, healthcare systems do one thing differently. Ashwin Kotwal: Oh, wow.

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The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medicine: Guest Bob Wachter

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And it happened, and it happened in large part, as you note, because of enormous stimulus from the US government for health systems to adopt electronic health records. The post The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medicine: Guest Bob Wachter appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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

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So if you look at government websites about heat for example, it’s got a line of buttons across the top with affected populations, outdoor workers, athletes and older people are in there. Ruth: That’s not prevention, that’s screening. Ruth, you’re involved in including it in the nursing curriculum.

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

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Ongoing reports from patients about anti-Asian hate experiences Should clinicians screen for Anti-Asian hate? question used to screen for domestic violence. It’s both institutionalized racism where there are policies and practices by corporations, by government that create inequality. Eric 31:19 Yeah.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

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In terms of their risk, in terms of how we think of preventive health, as we think of screening, all of those things, I would turn around to the geriatricians and say, “Check your implicit bias. In what moral universe is a federal government deeply subsidizing my housing and not subsidizing that of my patients?

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

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So I thought… And I was doing this for the United States Preventive Services Task Force because we were looking at the evidence to what’s the benefit and harm of screening, and I had to look all over. Just to let you know, Eric, we have to give the credit to our federal government. Diane: Yeah. Malaz: Yeah. Diane: Innovate.