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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

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So, in front of us today, we have a variety of hot sauces and chicken wings. They’ve all been laid out for you. Our task is simple, we are going to be sampling each of these hot chicken wings while we ask Eric and Alex questions related to Palliative care and Geriatrics. Alex: Great Eric: These are the questions submitted by our audience?

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

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And we know that a third of Medicare beneficiaries undergo surgery in the last year of life with 18% of those occurring in the last month of life. But we know that 30% of all decedents who are Medicare beneficiaries either die from dementia or have an existing diagnosis of dementia, which is something we talk about quite often, Joel and I.