ABIM

MAY 18, 2025

IBD is also increasingly being diagnosed in racial and ethnic minorities, children, and older adults. With no family history and little cultural awareness of the disease, I was left wondering why or how this had happened to me. Now, in 2025, it’s both validating and heartbreaking to see the rise in IBD diagnoses in Peru.

Diagnose 40

Diagnose Healthcare Diagnosis Physicals 40

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

And I think a big part of that journey was just having that right time, that right moment, with the right network and support groups of individuals, including my family, to really lift me up and allow me to celebrate my authentic self. Gender expression is your physical outward manifestation of how you express your gender identity.

Individual 82

Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 82

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

They look at the signs and symptoms, they do a physical exam, maybe some lab tests or some imaging. And if the doctors still come up with different diagnoses or perceptions of what’s happening with the patient and or treatment plans, that’s all on them. Try to really understand what’s happening.

Patient-Centered 112

Patient-Centered Patients IT Healthcare 112

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

And so this is our way of supporting non English speaking families in advanced care planning. But most people with dementia are initially diagnosed and medically managed in primary care, and they really desire clinicians to initiate these conversations but there are a number of really important barriers for these conversations taking place.

Primary Care 80

Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 80

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Wait, so one key message is that social health is linked to physical and cognitive health?!? We focus on function and mortality because these are outcomes that really are important to patients and families. May not even know that the patient has dementia, or they might think that, but it’s not been diagnosed.

Illness 63

Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 63

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.” Malaz: I love it.

Patient-Centered 126

Patient-Centered IT Families Family 126