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Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

GeriPal

All of them are going to be over 65 by 2030, so if you figure a quarter of those have diabetes, I call it the silver tsunami that’s coming into the palliative care geriatrics world, so these are topics that are going to be really important to all of us. And just with the aging population, baby boomers are going to be hitting 65.

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Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley

GeriPal

And then usually what we try and do is in order to make this more feasible, rather than clicking through 2030, predictors for busy clinicians, is perform some type of variable selection so that we can come up with a more simplified model. You include things like comorbidities, age, functional status falls, some other variables.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

We would drill down on the tenth differential diagnosis of medium vessel vasculitis, and then we would discharge them back out to the streets. Why was I spending all this time figuring out the detailed differential diagnosis of these obscure diseases when we weren’t actually attending to what people really needed? Eric: Oh, wow.