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

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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. Brought to mind the neglect and warehouse style nursing home home shabbiness of les hospices. And it was just the opposite for me. We had a lot of fun, actually. Les hospice in France.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

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They’re going to get older, they’re going to struggle with geriatric conditions, and they’re going to need palliative services and eventually end-of-life care. It was built in 1955, so it wasn’t designed for a geriatric population. We have nurses who have extra training in palliative care.

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End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane

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I was alone with her in the end of a long hallway at a nursing home health center. That’s getting a little off-topic because that’s after death, but I think with what doulas do is reprocessing and helping with some grief we can. Eric: To all of our listeners, thank you for your support of the podcast.

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Pragmatic Trial of ACP: Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson

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Alex 00:54 And Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who’s a social behavioral scientist and a fellow in the T32 Research Fellowship at the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. A lot has changed, but what motivated the study was a recognition that most advanced care planning interventional research had been undertaken in nursing homes.

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What Lessons Have We Learned from the First COVID Surges? Jim Wright & Darrell Owens

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Imagine that you are the medical director of a large (>150 bed) nursing home. Two-thirds of the patients in the home now have COVID-19. The other physicians who previously saw patients in the nursing home are no longer coming to your facility because you have COVID positive patients. Summary Transcript Summary.

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COVID Updates: A Podcast with Peter Chin-Hong and Lona Mody

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Our conversation covers: The current state of COVID Evidence for COVID boosters, who should get them, and preferences between Novavax and mRNA vaccines COVID treatments like Molnupiravir and Paxlovid Differences in COVID impact on nursing home residents and those with serious illnesses We wrap up with a “magic wand” question.