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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

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Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers

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Which patients are eligible to go to an ACE unit? So I picked the Ed Sheeran song, The A Team, because it reminds me of our ACE team that goes around the hospital and cares for our older patients. What are the benefits of an ACE unit? If ACE units are so great, why are they not so common? . I think Kellie, do you have it? Alex: Yeah.

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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

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She directs UCSF MERI’s patient, family, and clinician support with classes and consultation on resiliency, well-being, and grief. You wrote about how when it comes to talking about patients with dementia, they’re rarely portrayed as resilient. Summary Transcript Summary. What would it take to transform dementia care?

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Surgical Communication: A Podcast with Gretchen Schwarze, Justin Clapp and Alexis Colley

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Summary Transcript Summary For surgeons and patients, deciding if and when to operate can be challenging. Often, the way surgeons communicate about these decisions doesn’t make things any easier for themselves or their patients. We hope you enjoy this episode. Justin, welcome to GeriPal. Justin: Hello. It’s great to be here.

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Images of the Dying: A Podcast with Wendy MacNaughton, Lingsheng Li, and Frank Ostaseski

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Alex 00:08 UCSF’s Division of Palliative Medicine are looking to build on their research and clinical programs and are interviewing candidates for the associate chief of research position and for full time physician faculty to join them in the in-patient and out-patient settings. Sit down and draw each other for only one minute.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

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Give too much, it may cause harm (even if the higher dose had no significant side effects, it would require patients to take a lot of unnecessary additional pills as well as increase the cost.) So, what is the effective dose of palliative care? Give too little – it may not work. Jennifer 01:20 I do have a song request for Alex.

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Health and Wealth Shocks: Lauren Hunt, Rebecca Rodin, Tsai-Chin Cho

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-Alex Smith Additional links mentioned by Tsai-Chin Cho: – Wealth shocks and mortality in the US – Change in marital status as a risk for wealth shock ** NOTE: To claim CME credit for this episode, click here ** Transcript Eric 00:11 W elcome to the GeriPal p odcast. This is Eric Widera. Alex 00:12 This is Alex Smith. Is it you, Rebecca?

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