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Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh

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That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. Ann: I definitely do. Sarguni: Yeah, definitely. And a lot of them never actually improve their ADLs once they’re sent to SNF. Summary Transcript Summary Often podcasts meet clinical reality. Sweet Caroline.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

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She trained at UCSF, for geriatrics fellowship. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Bruce Leff, who is also a geriatrician, and professor of medicine, and director of the Center for Transformative Geriatric Research, and has been studying hospital-at-home since the mid-nineties. And that is, definitely, one way to approach it.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

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” 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.