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AUGUST 17, 2023

The outlook on amyloid antibodies are looking brighter though in 2023. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Sharon Brangman, who is a SUNY Distinguished Service professor and chair of the Department of Geriatrics and director of the Center of Excellence for Alzheimer’s Disease. Thanks so much for having me on.

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Diane: Huge.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2023

A health services researcher and palliative care physician, Amber lauds the ability of simulation studies to isolate one variable in a study. Being a palliative care physician, the one that came immediately to mind was Knocking on Heaven’s Door. And so I think that’s why it has its moment now even in 2023.

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MARCH 24, 2023

If you are interested in signing the position statement “Core Roles and Responsibilities of Physicians in Hospice Care”, click here. 2021 Association of Hospice Profit Status With Family Caregivers’ Reported Care Experiences. Lauren: And looking in the Medicare data, you cannot figure out when a hospice changed ownership.

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JULY 13, 2023

In a compelling editorial , Doug White and Sarah Anderson argue that even a 4% difference is important on a population basis, and that higher rates of difference among minoritized older adults demonstrate the potential of the intervention to address long-standing disparities in goals of care. Randy died February 26, 2023.

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JULY 20, 2023

See the AAHPM Legislative Action Center [link] Write to the DEA, with guidance from AAHPM’s comments to the DEA March 2023. Happy to be here Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Carly Zapata, who is a palliative care physician faculty at UCSF and directs the Palliative Care Fellowship at UCSF. Alex: Hope so.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

She trained at UCSF, for geriatrics fellowship. After that, she was faculty at Mount Sinai for a number of years, and now is associate professor at MD Anderson, in Texas, and is the lead of the hospital-at-home program there, called Care and Monitoring at Home. Then we did a larger study in several Medicare Advantage Plans in the VA.

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APRIL 20, 2023

” But we had a hunch that turned out to be right that by the time these folks were in their fifties, they really had all the geriatric conditions and things we associate with much older. Yeah, this is a geriatrics journal, and generally, if people aren’t over the age of 65, JAGS may not look at it as strongly. Margot: Yes.

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