Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers
January 12, 2023
Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units) have been around for over a quarter of a century. Randomized trials of ACE…
Conscientious Provision of MAID and Abortion: Robert Brody, Lori Freedman, Mara Buchbinder
January 5, 2023
Today’s podcast may be a stretch for our listeners. Please stick with us. No matter what your position on medical…
Negotiation and Dispute Resolution: A Podcast with Lee Lindquist and Alaine Murawski
December 29, 2022
From discussing “taking away the keys to the car” for a cognitively impaired older adult to decisions to limit life…
End of the Year Thanks, Thoughts, and Updates
December 22, 2022
As we are coming up at the end of the calendar year and almost to our 250th podcast, Alex and…
Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky
December 15, 2022
We’ve talked at length on prior podcasts about the failures of aducanumab, Biogen, and the FDA’s decision to approve it. …
Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler
December 8, 2022
Eric and I weren’t sure what to call this podcast – storytelling and medicine? Narrative medicine? We discussed it with…
Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long
December 2, 2022
What would it take to transform dementia care? While a lot of hope and money is being put into new…
Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky
November 17, 2022
Assisted Living Communities (no longer preferable to call them Assisted Living Facilities, as we learned on the podcast) are…what, exactly? …
Grief, Loss, and Wellness Debriefing: Vickie Leff, Matthew Loscalzo, Craig Blinderman
November 3, 2022
Health care professionals are human, and as humans we experience loss both in and out of work. You’d imagine though…
New Prognostic Models for Older Adults: Alex Lee, James Deardorff, Sei Lee
October 27, 2022
Dr. Faith Fitzgerald once quipped that prognostic modeling is the “punctilious quantification of the amorphous.” She has a point. Prognosis…