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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

Screening for addressing hearing loss should be an integral part of what we do in geriatrics and palliative care, but it often is either a passing thought or completely ignored. How to screen for hearing loss. Eric: And how do we screen for it? Communication techniques we can use when talking to individuals with hearing loss.

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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

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Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests George Kuchel & Alison Huang have no relationships to disclose. Do you screen for lower urinary tract symptoms, incontinence, and if so, how? Is there any relationship between frailty and urinary incontinence? I don’t see those perspectives as incompatible.

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Psilocybin in Serious Illness: James Downar, Ali John Zarrabi and Margaret Ross

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Alex 06:03 Is psilocybin that’s used for medicinal purposes in your studies, for example, is that manufactured or is it derived directly from mushrooms? So when they do meet it, how are you going to be in relationship to it? They communicated by looking at a letter screen and it would track his eye movements. I love that.

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Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy

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And so if we think of that relationship though, as these kinds of disasters increasing, so flooding, hurricanes, extreme heat and extreme cold, there are system level things to do. Ruth: That’s not prevention, that’s screening. What’s our role in changing the healthcare system, in our own healthcare system.

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MedTech Conference Download

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If you have a good relationship with the review team, Dr. Maisel encourages a brief phone call or quick email to obtain informal feedback. In closing, he advised manufacturers who plan to market their products beyond the public health emergency to plan to submit marketing applications. CDRH Town Hall.

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