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Addressing The Range of Patient Beliefs About COVID-19

Pallimed

In winter 2008 after President Obama was first elected, I saw a woman in clinic who said she was disappointed by the election result. IF you can figure out how public health guidance impacts a person in potentially negative ways, then you can acknowledge that (and sometimes work to mitigate with help of social workers, etc).

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Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers

GeriPal

Alex: We are delighted to welcome to the GeriPal Podcast, Kellie Flood, who is a geriatrician at the University of Alabama Birmingham and associate Chief Quality Officer for Geriatrics and Care Transitions. And also to have those folks proactively assessing and addressing geriatric syndromes. Kellie, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

Every member of the team, even for me, for whatever reason, that switched me from focusing on trying to be in pulmonary critical care to become actually a geriatrician, choose the geriatric fellowship. And these care navigator, they can be community health worker with just 12 years of education. They can be a- Diane: Social worker.

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

GeriPal

They’re really excellent, and if I have any complaint about them at all, it’s that they could have been issued in 2008, 2009. At American Geriatric Society in Orlando, got up during Amy Kelly’s talk, which was about dementia and said, “My mother cannot get hospice care because no hospice will take a chance on her.

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