Ashwin Kotwal
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265 appearances
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first heard May 2020
last heard Oct 2022
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There's also recent research that shows that loneliness can coexist with a number of other symptoms, um, which be can become more prevalent at the end of life, things like
pain, nausea, um shortness of breath, um, and even end-of-life healthcare use.
Um so there's there's a lot of different things that loneliness um might give a clue to, uh you know, other symptoms that people might be experiencing.
Um, I think there's also, you know, questions about what to do about all these topics.
Um, so part of it is addressing all these related symptoms.
You know, you definitely want to be aware of everything that's going on.
Um, Carla mentioned the National Academy of Sciences report that really um displayed.
A need for better evidence uh in interventions to address loneliness and isolation.
But just because the evidence um
is wanting, it doesn't mean we shouldn't do anything for uh for you know the distress that we're seeing in clinic.
So I think there's a lot of steps that clinicians can take um to at least, you know, many first steps that we can take and then ways that we can work with our interdisciplinary team, social workers, community health workers to get people connected to community programs that may um help.
Exactly.
I mean this is this is classic geriatrics, you know, taking an individualized approach to to address um situations w where the evidence hasn't quite caught up yet.
So um we're often asking, what do people think might help?
um and trying to think about the individual contributors to loneliness um that might be going on in that situation.
You know, s if if a person has recently lost a spouse um and is grieving.
um then putting them in a you know a large community exercise group is probably not the right thing for them at that time.
You know, maybe it maybe it maybe it is and and it's worth exploring with them.
Um, but sometimes in those situations we might think about um telephone friendship lines to just check in on someone, um provide you know
provide grief counseling, exactly.
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