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Voices: ??Dr. Khai Nguyen, National Medical Director, Geriatrician, CHAP

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Additionally, I draw on my own personal experience as a caregiver to my older adult father, which started when I was twelve. He was in his early 60s when I was born, and he suffered a stroke in 1989, which threw our family into the post-acute medical care space and encouraged me to take on a caregiving role. How can we promote this?”

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

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Today we have a star-studded lineup, including Lexy Torke of Indiana University, who discusses her RCT of a chaplaincy intervention for surrogates of patients in the ICU , published in JPSM and plenary presentation at AAHPM/HPNA. Thanks to my son Kai for playing the guitar part in 5/4 with strange chords on Riverman by Nick Drake!

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

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This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. There’s a book called The 36-hour day for dementia caregivers. It requires a fight. It’s been going on for many decades now.

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The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks

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Though his narrow definition of suffering as injured or threatened personhood has been critiqued , the central concept was a motivating force for many of us to enter the fields of geriatrics and palliative care, Eric and I included. 2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3. Pain Manag Nurs. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004. 2023.11.004.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

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what happens at home, do you need a caregiver, what happens if they need something like imaging? JAGS Hospital-at-Home Interventions vs In-Hospital Stay for Patients With Chronic Disease Who Present to the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. She trained at UCSF, for geriatrics fellowship.

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