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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

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Abhilash Desai, MD , geriatric psychiatrist, adjunct associate professor in the department of psychiatry at University of Washington School of Medicine, and poet! She directs UCSF MERI’s patient, family, and clinician support with classes and consultation on resiliency, well-being, and grief. Anne, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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7 Strategies to Cope With Anxiety for Caregivers (And Their Seniors)

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Common Causes of the Seniors’ Increased Anxiety America Association for Geriatric Psychiatry shows that 10-20% of older adults suffer from anxiety, which can adversely affect their lifestyle. However, there are various ways to help cope with the condition.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

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-Alex End Well Talk [link] Resources on the PEACH Program Program Review Paper A recent publication in Longwoods Healthcare Quarterly reviewing the PEACH model. I always knew that I wanted to get into healthcare, to use healthcare as a springboard for social change in our communities. Have you thought about that?

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Prolonged Grief Disorder: Holly Prigerson

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Holly Prigerson recalls the moments in which she started investigating prolonged grief disorder. She recalls being “a social scientist [Holly] in room full of psychiatrists,” who recognized a diagnostic gap in people experiencing profound and potentially harmful grief far after the death of a loved one. Summary Transcript Summary.

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Plenary Abstracts at AAHPM/HPNA: Yael Schenker, Na Ouyang, Marie Bakitas

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Does every institution need to get a community advisory board to tailor their rural tele-palliative care initiative (or geriatrics intervention) to the local communities served? Like, would you include the doctors that I work with, healthcare providers where I live in Marin? We are going to have healthcare utilization data as well.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

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Because I don’t think we think about that so much in palliative care, but we do in geriatrics. I’m particularly interested in, have you told people that it’s probably safer for them to stop driving and seen the grief and loss that they experience when they hear that? Is it you, Emmy? Emmy: It is. Is this our role?

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The Roots of Palliative Care: Michael Kearney, Sue Britton, and Justin Sanders

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You’re talking about a paradigm shift in healthcare. I think that was from a point of view of how do you cope with sadness and grief, is that you find a funny bone somewhere and you have. That’s what’s missing right now in our healthcare system. And it was just the opposite for me. Eric 24:44 Why is that?