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Depression at the end of life: Podcast with Elissa Kozlov and Claire Ankuda
You've probably heard patients say, "Of course I'm depressed, I'm dying. Wouldn't you be?" This is a fundamental question - to what extent are depressive symptoms "normal" at the end of life? To what extent are they maladaptive, a fancy word for psychological conditions that have a negative impact on your life. In this week's GeriPal podcast we talked with Elissa Kozlov, a psychologist-researcher at Rutgers, and Claire Ankuda, a palliative care physician-researcher at Mt. Sinai about their JAGS paper describing the epidemiology of depressive symptoms in the last year of life. This was an…
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