GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

The FDA-approved indications for gabapentin are only for treating patients with partial seizures or postherpetic neuralgia. valproic acid and gabapentin), in nursing homes, particularly patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. 2006 Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Annals of IM. Tasce: Yes.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. Healthcare staff were afraid of patients with HIV because there wasn’t clarity on how it was transmitted. Michele: Yep. And then they entered. We did a MoCA on one.

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Family Families IT Community 132

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Started as a direct case manager, worked in a variety of different places including the state legislature and I’ve been with the state office now since 2006. Equally as important, is if you wind up in an ED or being hospitalized or wind up in rehab, eventually you’re going to be discharged back home. Eric: And Susan?

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

And when she was here, she co founded the Golden Compass Clinic at San Francisco General Hospital for older adults living with HIV. And so the patients who had been admitted there to die, essentially most, if not all, got better and HIV became much more of a chronic condition. And I think patients too, don’t always people.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Care Ecosystem.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 23, 2025

Nonetheless, its work has often been politically unpopular and unheralded outside of a small community of health services researchers and patient advocates. Despite this deliberately circumscribed mandate (I lost count of the number of times during my tenure as an AHRQ medical officer from 2006-2010 that I was told, "We don't make guidelines.

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