GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

So I have thought about this for months, maybe years since your 2016, cycle blog, but we have picked Under Pressure by David Bowie and Queen. They have poor pain, they have poor function, but you also can’t clearly make a diagnosis. And sometimes you can make a use disorder of diagnosis in hindsight. Give some pleasure.

Illness 102

Illness Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 102

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

The number of people who have used MAID in Canada since it was legalized in 2016 has increased year on year from about 1,000 people in the first year to over 13,000 people in 2022. Alex: Self-administer and psychiatric illness is not considered a qualifying diagnosis. Four percent. So being well and also potentially periods of dying.

Illness 144

Illness IT Medical Provider 144

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To describe individual characteristics and healthcare use in older adults with SMI across home care services (HCS) profiles before and after the first dementia diagnosis. Dataset: Health administrative data from 380,124 Quebecers between 1996 and 2016. Study Design and Analysis: Retrospective cohort study.

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Diagnosis Healthcare Illness Primary Care 130

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

God, it must have been like 2015, 2016. This is a particularly interesting topic because we know that individuals with dementia have a high rate of entering nursing home. That just leads to issues that can make home care very difficult for these individuals. Eric 10:09 So you’re reassured on that concern there.

Family 106

Family Families Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

What are the structural factors and individual factors that contribute to homelessness? We would drill down on the tenth differential diagnosis of medium vessel vasculitis, and then we would discharge them back out to the streets. The worse the structural factors are, the fewer individual factors you need to become homeless.

Mental Health 123

Mental Health IT Community Individual 123

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.” 2015, 2016.

Patient-Centered 125

Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125

GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

Robert was first asked by one of his own patients for assistance in dying in 1991, far before aid in dying was legalized in California in 2016. And the argument was framed more as a healthcare choice made by individuals in conjunction with their clinicians. So religion, much less. Authority figures, much less.

Provider 19

Provider Medical Hospital Patient-Centered 19