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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

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Summary Transcript CME Summary Its another deprescribing super special on today’s GeriPal Podcast, where we delve into the latest research on deprescribing medications prescribed to older adults. Eric 00:04 And Alex, we ve got another deprescribing super special with us today. This is Eric Widera. Alex 00:03 This is Alex Smith.

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Prevention of Dementia: Kristine Yaffe

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It’s just another example of, I think, that there’s a little extra special sauce there in the Beeson program. Should do medicine?” ” Because I loved internal medicine. Physical activity is a big one. I was a psychobiology major, surprise, surprise, one of the first at Yale.

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Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison

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My voice is nothing special. A music therapist would use music deliberately to achieve a rehabilitation goal, just like a physical therapist or an occupational therapist. And this gets called, disparagingly, music medicine, where doctors, because they have a license, they just use music like they would use a drug.

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

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Because I think we have someone special, a guest host. Another study looking at the benefits of physical rehabilitation in patients with HFpEF. Transcript Eric 00:00 Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric Widera. Alex 00:04 This is Alex Smith. Eric 00:05 And Alex, who do we have with us today? He’s in Boston.

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Comics and Humor in Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nathan Gray

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Times , The BMJ , and Annals of Internal Medicine. . I think that there are times when we use humor to cope, and that’s a special and very tender space for of people to share in, but is not something that you want to expose to the light of the world. Alex: And you published in Washington Post, Annals of Internal Medicine.

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

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Kate and Ashwin talked about their research on the prevalence of lifetime trauma and its association with physical and psychosocial health among adults at the end of life. Physical symptoms like pain, dyspnea, fatigue, psychological symptoms, depression, loneliness, and then some of the social experiences as well, like social isolation.

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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. She’s a geriatric nurse practitioner specializing in palliative care, and assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. One of them is Karen Steinhauser’s Annals of Internal Medicine paper on, In Search of a Good Death. Rehabbed to Death.