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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 ). We saw that around 60% of people were screening positive for depression in the last month before death. Or is it that I’m just not screening? That’s a lot.

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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. This was 2018 in AGS Orlando, and they did a song about when to stop screening for cancer for colon cancer. How to talk to patients about screening colonoscopies. Ken 10:29 Yes.

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

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We found their physical environment was drastically different; where those with low feeding tube rates had really a rather beautiful physical environment. Ruth: Also in a few short words, we found similar to our initial study that there were differences in physical environment. What does the physical environment look like?