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

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Summary Transcript Summary Often podcasts meet clinical reality. That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. But rarely does the podcast and clinical reality meet in the same day. Lynn Flint, author of the NEJM perspective titled, “Rehabbed to Death,” joins Eric and I as co-host.

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Managing Urinary Symptoms and UTI’s in Older Adults

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First, we talk with Christine, a researcher and geriatrician from the University of North Carolina, who recently published a JAGS article titled Overdiagnosis of urinary tract infections by nursing home clinicians versus a clinical guideline. Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric Widera. Is that right?

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New Prognostic Models for Older Adults: Alex Lee, James Deardorff, Sei Lee

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James: Definitely not-. Eric: Yeah, this is definitely… If you grew up in the ’80s, this is the slow dancing song. Most of them are dealing with older adults with dementia who are living in the nursing home or have severe dementia. Welcome back to GeriPal, James. James: Thanks for having me. Welcome back, Sei.

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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

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Jerry: Probably for the reason a lot of people go into geriatrics, close relationship with grandparents, volunteered to work in a nursing home as a high school student, just felt really good about being around old people and not having a problem with it. I definitely do. Eric: And can I ask you, why did you choose geriatrics?