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Back to SearchDo Dementia Care Management Programs Work? A Podcast with David Reuben and Greg Sachs
Episode 371
With all the attention focused on Alzheimer's biomarkers and amyloid antibodies, it's easy to forget that comprehensive dementia care is more than blood draws and infusions. On today's podcast, we bu…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment: Benefits, Cost-Effectiveness, and Who It Helps Most - Eric Wong and Thiago Silva
Episode 370
In today's podcast we talk with Eric Wong, geriatrician-researcher from Toronto, and Thiago Silva, geriatrician-researcher from Brazil, about the comprehensive geriatrics assessment. We spend the fir…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
What instead? Alternatives to Beers: Todd Semla and Mike Steinman
Episode 369
On a prior podcast we talked with Todd Semla and Mike Steinman about the update to the AGS Beers Criteria of potentially inappropriate medications in older adults (Todd and Mike co-chair the AGS Be…
Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Art Museum-Based Medical Education: Amy Klein, Laura Morrison, and Gordon Wood
Episode 368
Health care trainees rotate through a variety of different settings. ICUs, hospital wards, and outpatient clinics. If they're lucky, they might even spend time in a nursing home. But on today's podca…
Published on 3 months ago
We Need a Care Revolution: Victor Montori
Episode 367
In his book, "Why We Revolt," Victor Montori decries the industrialization of healthcare. We've become a healthcare factory, beholden to health systems motivated by profit. In particular, he laments…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
System Wide Goals of Care Implementation: A Podcast with Ira Byock, Chris Dale, and Matt Gonzales
Episode 366
Most health care providers understand the importance of goals-of-care conversations in aligning treatment plans with patients' goals, especially for those with serious medical problems. And yet, thes…
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Death Anxiety: Dani Chammas & Keri Brenner
Episode 365
What is death anxiety? We spend the first 15 minutes of the podcast addressing this question. And maybe this was unfair to our guests, the fabulous dynamic duo of palliative psychiatrists Dani Chamma…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Individualizing Blood Pressure Goals in Older Adults: A Podcast with Mitra Jamshidian, Simon Ascher and Mark Supiano
Episode 364
What's the ideal blood pressure target for older adults with hypertension? Should we aim for a systolic BP of 120 mmHg in all older adults, as suggested by the SPRINT trial? Or should we be more flex…
Published on 4 months ago
Should Palliative Care be in the Survivorship Business? A Podcast with Laura Petrillo, Laura Shoemaker
Episode 363
In this week's episode, we dig into two deceptively simple questions: When does someone become a cancer survivor, and should palliative care be in the business of caring for them? Spoiler: It's more …
Published on 4 months, 1 week ago
Health and Wealth Shocks: Lauren Hunt, Rebecca Rodin, Tsai-Chin Cho
Episode 362
June Lunney famously characterized the end of life functional course of people with dementia as a slow dwindle over time. Tom Gill later found that people with dementia do indeed have persistent seve…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago