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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary The comprehensive geriatric assessment is one of the cornerstones of geriatrics. But does the geriatric assessment do anything? Evidence has been mounting about the importance of the geriatric assessment for older adults with cancer, the subject of today’s podcast. Precision medicine?

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JUNE 8, 2023

Our last podcast was with Laura Petrillo in 2018 – 5 years ago seems ancient history – though many of the points still apply today (e.g. Alex Smith: And we’re delighted to welcome back Alex Lee, who’s an epidemiologist and assistant professor at UCSF in the division of geriatrics. Goldilocks zone).

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MARCH 3, 2022

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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FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And so the definition of advance care planning really switched in, I think, 2017, 2018, there was kind of a United States definition and then an international consensus definition. Or the cases where someone actually said, “I never want a feeding tube.” Why did they choose to be DNR or not have a feeding tube?

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MAY 12, 2022

Raj: 40 years later in 2018, they got together at Astana, the then capital of Kazakhstan, and brought out another resolution, which ask member countries to give control over healthcare to the community. So, she was in a pathetic stage and she had no way of coming and seeing the mother because she had to feed the children from her earnings.

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APRIL 21, 2022

Redwing: So I grew up in a pretty intellectual family, but my brother and sister were six and 10 years older than me, and they were always feeding me literature and poetry. Eric: What do you think attracted you to it? When I was about nine-years-old, they gave me a book of poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay.

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