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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

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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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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

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On today’s podcast we dive into drivers of invasive procedures and hospitalizations in advanced dementia by talking to some pretty brilliant nursing and nurse practitioner researchers focused on dementia, geriatrics, and palliative care in nursing homes: Ruth Palan Lopez, Caroline Stephens, Joan Carpenter, and Lauren Hunt. Rehabbed to Death.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

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In 1988, Cruzan’s parents requested that her feeding tube be removed, arguing that she would not want to continue in this state. On the one hand, this was unfortunate, as it meant Nancy Cruzan could not be disconnected from the feeding tube immediately. In 1990 the Supreme Court ruled…for the state of Missouri. Alex: Bernie.

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Dysphagia Revisited: A Podcast with Raele Donetha Robison and Nicole Rogus-Pulia

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We talk with them about the epidemiology, assessment, and management of dysphagia, including the role of modifying the consistency of food and liquids, feeding tubes, and the role of dysphagia rehabilitation like tongue and cough strengthening. He doesn’t prescribe thickened liquids, because he just puts in feeding tubes in everybody.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

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Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. Anne: Right.

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Artificial Intelligence: Charlotta Lindvall, Matt DeCamp, Sei Lee

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We talk on this podcast about potential uses of AI in geriatrics and palliative care with natural language processing guru Charlotta Lindvall from DFCI, bioethicists and internist Matt DeCamp from University of Colorado, and prognosis wizard Sei Lee from UCSF. Sei Lee is Professor of Medicine at UCSF in the division of geriatrics.

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

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These hick pick codes are available to any chaplain in a healthcare system. And I told her I quote LaVera every year when I teach the geriatrics fellows, the palliative care fellows, I would love for you to tell the story that I quote because you experienced it. It’s now available. Eric: So, let me ask this then.

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