Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Global healthcare systems are not prepared to care for the 55 million individuals worldwide affected by Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD), with cases continuing to rise. Conclusions To meet pressing needs for ADRD diagnosis and management, early detection of cognitive issues in primary care settings is needed.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Screening Healthcare Finance 130

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary We recently published a podcast on palliative care for kidney failure, focusing on conservative kidney management. Today we’re going to focus upstream on the decision to initiate dialysis vs conservative kidney management. For example, with peritoneal dialysis and conservative management.

Management 116

Management Patient-Centered Patients IT 116

GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

This long and sordid history of gabapentin and pregabalin is beautifully described in Seth Landefeld and Mike Steinman 2009 NEJM editorial. 2022 Perioperative Gabapentin Use in Older AdultsRevisiting Multimodal Pain Management JAMA IM. J Am Geriatr Soc. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Review. Annals of IM. This is Eric Widera.

Patient-Centered 96

Patient-Centered IT Healthcare Medical 96

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

2021 Association of Hospice Profit Status With Family Caregivers’ Reported Care Experiences. I think some individuals thought there was cherry-picking of stories that made it seem like hospice is this bad thing, that it’s taking advantage of vulnerable individuals and it didn’t talk enough about the good things that hospice does.

IT 113

IT Provider Patients Families 113

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

We’ve invited two death doulas, Jane Euler and John Loughnane (who is also a family doc and palliative care physician), to talk about the role of a doula at the end of life. John: I am what I am, which is a family practice doctor. It sets space between us and the individuals we’re trying to take care of.

Provider 117

Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Many years ago for the first study; I believe it was in 2009, 2010; I met with Susan Mitchell at the Institute for Aging Research, and told her that I wanted to study the use of feeding tubes for people with advanced dementia. Rehabbed to Death.

Nurse Practitioner 60

Nurse Practitioner Hospital Families Family 60

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

And it’s very traumatic obviously for the family and all of that and the team really. It was like this patient is on hospice and call the case manager to figure out how the patient ended up here. You’d have to tailor it to each individual emergency department because you couldn’t. No, no, no.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered Hospital IT Patients 77