GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

And so to them, the real frustrating part is they’re supposed to be treating people like it’s a one-time event the very first time, and the system of EMS is not designed to be longitudinal complex care, and yet that’s basically what we’re seeing happening. All of these are factors that are on the individual level.

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Community Transportation IT PCP 114

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Eric: For those of you don’t know, Emmy was on our podcast back in 2018 … man, pre-COVID times. That’s where it really gets to this individual risks and balances, individual situation. And the primary care provider had assumed he was no longer driving, I think. Weren’t those the days?

Families 102

Families Family IT Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

So what is the role of individuals like geriatricians in prescribing amyloid antibodies and caring for individuals who are receiving them? And I do think geriatricians need to as individuals make that decision, largely based on their comfort with the diagnostics and the specifics of the therapeutics.

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Patient-Centered IT Clinic Patients 98

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Links to a few couple items mentioned on the podcast: Objectives for Advance Care Planning. 2018 Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews on ACP. I worry, as a ex-primary care doctor, how much time I have. And so you could say that’s sort of starting the normalizing that process of advance care planning.

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Illness IT Healthcare Patient-Centered 72

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Michele: Yeah, so in May of 2018, there was an article by Suleika Jaouad in the New York Times Magazine, and they spent about two weeks in our hospice with us learning about the work that’s done. Michele: The article was 2018, but I think Bonnie read the article more recently. Eric: How long ago was this? Alex: A few years back.

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Families Family IT Community 132

Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

As a general practitioner and primary care researcher, it was always fascinating for me to delve into the scientific literature to investigate this issue. The following graph shows the striking difference in premature mortality between countries with weak or strong primary care: 2. Here are the key results.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

I want to say like 2017, 2018, something like that. Lauren: Although again, still thinking about what that means for an individual older adult is really important. What I think is the data does show much more of… Is that these bundles of care, we use one like A, B, C, D, E, F, which is commonly employed in a lot of ICUs.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Hospital 96

GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

Eric 06:58 It could be CPR in an individual with metastatic cancer in the icu. In fact, the Right to Try act signed into law in 2018, allows patients with life threatening illness to access investigational drugs. Could be considered a PULET, potentially unsafe, potentially inducing harm with low evidence of benefit.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 77

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Today we are delighted to welcome Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, and Danny Scerpella, who conducted a pragmatic trial of advance care planning (ACP) in primary care practices; and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who wrote an accompanying commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine. Jennifer, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Sydney 00:41 Thank you.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 79