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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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Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. 2017 podcast. Who do we have with us today?

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

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valproic acid and gabapentin), in nursing homes, particularly patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. J Am Geriatr Soc. Donovan Maust is a geriatric psychiatrist and health services researcher at the University of Michigan. It’s a big episode covering a lot of topics. Annals of IM.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

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This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. I want to say like 2017, 2018, something like that. Alex: Yeah.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

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And I learned, so you have this wonderful paper that just came out in JAGS, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, titled Patients Living with Dementia Have Worse Outcomes When Undergoing High-Risk Procedures. Now, historically, there was a lot of discussion about the perioperative risks, especially in older adults. Joel: Talk about it.