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

GeriPal

Anna Chodos is a geriatrician at UCSF and the Principal Investigator of Dementia Care Aware, a California-wide program to improve the detection of dementia in older adults who have Medi-Cal benefits. What should we use to screen individuals? Who should get it if anyone? What happens after they test positive? Is that right, Soo?

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What’s next for value-based care

Permanente Medicine

  This webinar explores what’s next for value-based care and the differences that set it apart from fee-for-service models and the importance of rewarding value over volume. The common refrain for value-based care is that it rewards value over volume. Let’s meet our guests. With me is Ceci Connolly.

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Not Only Harvard. RFK Jr.’s Slashed Science Funding Cuts Across States That Backed Trump

Physicians News Digest

in 2022, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Those changes — plus the firing of 1,200 agency employees as part of mass layoffs across the government — are alarming scientists and NIH workers, who warn that they will undermine progress in combating diseases and other threats to the nation’s public health.