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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

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Eric 02:37 Feeding the beast, Matthew, feeding the beast [laughing] Alex 02:41 All right, here’s a little bit. Nicole 06:04 In a way, it definitely does. He’s 91, lives in assisted living, has been diagnosed with HF , HF preserved ejection. It’s awesome. Matthew, I get the lyrics.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

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Eric: Definitely MAID- Alex: Eric knows, MAID in Canada Eric: Medical Aid In Dying in Canada. Alex: Definitely not on amyloid drugs. Definitely putting a little bit more prep time in. Like us, subscribe to us on your podcast feed. Alex: You may have seen her on Prior podcast playing piano. Alex: That one’s easy.

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

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If you develop dementia, odds are you will spend the last months to years of your life in a nursing home or assisted living facility. For a deeper dive, check out some of these other studies and resources we talked about in the podcast: The Influence of Nursing Home Culture on the Use of Feeding Tubes. Rehabbed to Death.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

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And at some point, she was living in assisted living and fell and broke her hip. So we followed Gretchen Schwarze’s definition, which was 1% or higher inpatient mortality was considered high-risk. You’ll have a feeding tube. My mother-in-law, Ruth Leman, was a professor emeritus at American University.

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HIV, Aging, and Palliative Care: Peter Selwyn and Meredith Greene

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And then when I came to residency at the University of California, San Francisco, I was definitely interested in HIV, also in geriatrics and general medicine. I guess by this definition, I am now an older adult. This was in the early 2000s in Detroit. And that was partially why I came to UCSF for residency. Today is March 24th.