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What You Should Know About Radiation Oncology: Anish Butala, Emily Martin and Evie Kalmar

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But there are times that a primary care physician or an internal medicine physician may make the referral. Even if it’s a discussion that is involving the primary care physician, the geriatrician, the medical oncologist, the surgical oncologist. I know, I’m sure it depends with insurance and where you are.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

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Lastly, we discuss Katie’s paper on substance use disorder in an aging population and how one can incorporate the 5 Ms (ie, matters most, medications, mind, mobility, and multicomplexity) into a framework for age-friendly care for older adults with substance use disorder. Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric Widera.

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

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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. So we’re trying to help replace the transportation option.

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

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Summary Transcript CME Summary The need for better palliative care in nursing homes is significant. nursing homes grapple with serious illnesses, and roughly half experience dementia. The reason that you’re in a nursing home is because you have some mix of serious illness and multimorbidity, usually functional impairments.

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

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Suresh was a barge captain, a dangerous and thrilling profession that led him to transport goods across international waters. And for about five years, my mom was declining from a dementia illness, we think something Parkinsonian. And I turned to my dad and I said, I think mom needs palliative care. His face immediately lit up.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

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If you are interested in learning more and meeting a community of folks interested in hospital-at-home, check out the hospital-at-home user group at hahusersgroup.org or some of these publications: Hospital-Level Care at Home for Acutely Ill Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial. We have home-based primary care.

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