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Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

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Analyzing the Health and Retirement Study, she found 60% of older adults screened positive for depression in the last year of life (related study here ). She conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of 38 palliative care trials, finding that many excluded people with serious illness, and a lack of impact on psychological outcomes.

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GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundeberg and Annie Medina-Walpole

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We covered: The first parody song I wrote, for AGS 2018 in Orlando , about this article by Nancy Schoenborn on how to discuss stopping cancer screening. We discuss our favorite articles, parody songs, and memories from AGS meetings past, with a little preview of a song for this years meeting. So this is something. It is a sold out crowd.

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

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Cari 01:42 I would like to request Hallelujah, one of my favorite songs. And I love hearing you sing, and so it’s an excuse to have you sing a beautiful song. And it’s, I think, a very uplifting song. And I’m so pleased with Connie and that she’s doing so well, and so it’s a celebration of her, too. No problem.

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Plenary Abstracts at AAHPM/HPNA: Yael Schenker, Na Ouyang, Marie Bakitas

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Another interpretation is that clinicians avoided telling the parents prognosis in order to bolster their ratings of trust and communication quality. Which is it? Garfunkel says Simon was writing about Garfunklels friend and college roomate Sandy, who was blind. Whos got the right of it? Na 01:01 Yes, I requested the song. We’ll see.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

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Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast, Caroline. Caroline: Thanks, Alex. I know it’s a mouthful. It’s exciting to be here. Alex: And welcoming back to the GeriPal Podcast for, like, her 10th time, we have Lauren Hunt, who is nurse researcher and assistant professor at the UCSF School of Nursing. Welcome back to the GeriPal Podcast, Lauren.

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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. Lingsheng (and I) recently published studies on this in JAMA Internal Medicine , and JAGS. Add to this, “do you feel safe outside the home?” Jessica, welcome back to GeriPal.

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

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This DEA is taking 6-months to consider how to move forward vis a vis restrictions and requirements for telehealth in a post-pandemic world. So we’re going to be talking about telemedicine, telehealth for people with serious illness. Now is the time to act, dear listeners! This is Eric Widera. Joe: I do. The Labyrinth version or?