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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

Love to talk about also in the serious illness population. Emmy: So that older person or person with maybe terminal illness or developing impairments, it might make sense for them to just keep driving because they don’t have a good replacement. Emmy: Sometimes it is, “Go see your eye doctor. Is this our role?

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

But now we have older people dying of older people illnesses. So they can be referred by their primary care doctor or to us. You can choose comfort-focused care or you can choose to continue chemotherapy. Michele: So the patients within the Department of Corrections, there are doctors at every facility.

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Should Palliative Care be in the Survivorship Business? A Podcast with Laura Petrillo, Laura Shoemaker

GeriPal

And that really resonated with what we often talk about in palliative care, is helping people not just die well, but live well. Eric 09:34 I got a question on that because it’s interesting because we were talking a little bit palliative care and like a little bit about, like, confusion around, like, what does palliative care mean?

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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

GeriPal

Nate also wrote a NEJM piece last year on Alzheimers Disease, Biomarkers, and mAbs What Does Primary Care Need? We address the following questions with Nate: Has anything changed for the primary care doctor when diagnosing Alzheimers? So I get all the referrals from my great colleagues in primary care.