In this episode, we are joined by two addiction medicine doctors in the UCSF Department of Medicine: Christine Soran, MD, MPH, assistant professor, primary care clinician, and medical director of the Office-Based Buprenorphine Induction Clinic; and Triveni Defries, MD, MPH, assistant professor, primary care clinician, and addiction medicine specialist. We will discuss how substance use disorders affect cognition, how to adapt the cognitive health assessment for patients with substance use disorders, and how to incorporate a workup for substance use disorders in the next- steps evaluation. You will also gain a deeper understanding and practical skills for how to better assess older patients for substance use disorders. Click here to watch a webinar, Adapting the Cognitive Health Assessment for Patients with Serious Mental Illness or Substance Use Disorder, featuring Dr. Soran and Dr. Defries. Podcast listeners are eligible to receive FREE 0.5 CME, AAFP, or CAMFT credit. MOC is also provided. Please complete the survey below to claim credit. CME and AAFP Evaluation Survey CAMFT Evaluation Survey 

In this podcast, Anna Chodos, MD, MPH, Executive Director of Dementia Care Aware, sits down with Wagahta Semere, MD an internist and researcher on caregiving in San Francisco, and Joseph Herrera, MSW, a social worker in geriatrics and a dementia specialty clinic working primarily with Latino patients in Los Angeles County. Together they will discuss the challenges of assessing and connecting in the clinic with caregivers of people living with dementia. The podcast delves into the importance of health care teams taking the time to assess caregivers’ needs, building relationships with them, and connecting them to available resources. The conversation also covers practical tips for fostering trust and the consideration of cultural factors affecting a person’s acceptance of the caregiving role as well as the need for self-care opportunities for caregivers. Overall, this podcast provides valuable insights into the practical aspects and nuances of working with caregivers in primary care.Wagahta Semere is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco in the Division of General Internal Medicine, and Joseph Herrera is a social worker at the University of Southern California/Rancho Los Amigos California Alzheimer Disease Center.Podcast listeners are eligible to receive FREE 0.5 CME, AAFP, or CAMFT credit. MOC is also provided. Please complete the survey below to claim credit.CME and AAFP evaluation survey: https://ucsf.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8lfr8c7cDIct90aCAMFT evaluation survey: https://ucsf.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0iGdk82LgWGvMQ6

In this episode, Dr. Anna Chodos speaks with Elena Portacolone, PhD, MBA, MPH, about her work understanding the experiences of approximately 4.3 million older adults in the U.S. who live alone and have cognitive impairment or dementia. They talk about how common this is, how we can detect it, how we can make the most of the "miracle" of making a diagnosis in someone who lives alone, and how to build a team around that person. Dr. Portacolone is an Associate Professor of Sociology in the Institute for Health and Aging at UCSF and a Pepper Center Scholar at the Division of Geriatric Medicine at UCSF.  Some of her key articles:On Living Along with Alzheimer's DiseaseEffects and Meaning of Receiving a Diagnosis of Mild Cognitive Impairment or Alzheimer's Disease When One Lives AloneThe concept of precarity in older age in the US, and specifically, among older adults living alone with cognitive impairment.Expectations of older adults with cognitive impairment of their relationships with health care providers. The Living Alone with Cognitive Impairment Project's Policy Advisory Group on Long-Term Services and SupportsListeners of this podcast episode are eligible to receive 0.5 CME, AAFP or CAMFT credit. MOC is also provided. Please complete the survey below to claim credit.CME and AAFP Evaluation Survey: https://ucsf.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_42ekOtoiEx58PTUCAMFT Evaluation Survey: https://ucsf.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9zNBE73upnkcP9c

In the first episode of the Dementia Care on Air podcast series, Dr. Anna Chodos speaks with Dementia Care Aware’s lead on educational development, Dr. Josette Rivera.  She will discuss the tool for cognitive health assessment, and explain how to screen your patients, and how to incorporate that into your practice.   Detecting dementia begins with the cognitive health assessment, a quick screen for cognitive decline, functional decline, and a person’s support system.  Listeners of this episode are eligible for 0.5 CME, AAFP, or CAMFT credit.  MOC is also provided. Please complete our evaluation survey using the link provided below. For this activity, we provide CME and California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT) credits. Please select the correct link based on the credit type you are claiming. Link to CME evaluation survey: https://ucsf.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4TPwfgo1vZUXjro Link to CAMFT evaluation survey: https://ucsf.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b7KKKd1QcL5v9j0 Check out our training programs and resources at DementiaCareAware.org. Dementia Care Aware is co-led by the California Department of Health Care Services and UCSF.