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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

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link] Kensington Hospice & ‘Radical Love’ Equity-Oriented Hospice Palliative Care Naheed Dosani also serves as the Medical Director of Kensington Hospice, Torontos largest hospice. He was a person with schizophrenia, he was a person who used drugs and he presented in pain crisis to our shelter. Naheed 16:20 Yeah.

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Defining Palliative Care Quality in Murky Regulatory Waters

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Capturing real-time quality data is an important part of effectively managing patients symptoms and needs, according to Dr. Monisha Pujari, medical director of Georgia-based Longleaf Hospice & Palliative Care. Calls are growing louder for a federally established set of standardized palliative guidelines.

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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

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He is associate professor at the University of Wisconsin and medical director of their Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. Well, so there is a debate in the field as to the definition of Alzheimer’s disease. Amyloid alone is enough of a definition of Alzheimer’s. And I pretty much present it as.

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HopeHealth’s Expanding Scope of Pediatric Hospice, Palliative Services

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Hospice News recently sat down with pediatrician Dr. Rebecca MacDonell-Yilmaz, medical director of HopeHealth’s pediatric supportive services. The unfortunate truth is that there were definitely children who could benefit from hospice support if it were available, but most were dying in the hospital.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

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So we thought that really coalescing around this term, which is still difficult because sometimes you think of unrepresented is politically unrepresented or it is a challenging definition with three parts to it that’s really hard to capture with any one term. But we think unrepresented is an advance beyond the previous terminology.

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Amyloid Antibodies and the Role of the Geriatrician: Nate Chin, Sharon Brangman, and Jason Karlawish

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Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Nate Chin, who is associate professor at the University of Wisconsin, where he is medical director of their Alzheimer’s Disease research center and runs a large study in Wisconsin called the RAP Study studying Alzheimer’s Disease. It is by definition pathology. Jason: Yeah.

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

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He’s a medical director of H ebrew S enior L ife outpatient clinic at Newbridge. Nicole 06:04 In a way, it definitely does. You have x amount of medications to choose from. Do you think you want to go down that path of changing your medications? Because I think we have someone special, a guest host.