GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Screening for addressing hearing loss should be an integral part of what we do in geriatrics and palliative care, but it often is either a passing thought or completely ignored. How to screen for hearing loss. He was an otolaryngologist and epidemiology person too, might have an appointment in geriatrics too. Transcript.

IT 102

IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

The intervention involved mailing medication-specific brochures to patients before their primary care appointments (click here for the brochure ). And I think of the analogy of, like, cancer screening. The stopping the cancer screening doesn’t have that same sort of momentum. You know, we got to prevent cancer.

Specialization 119

Specialization IT Patient-Centered Medical 119

GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

We discuss our favorite articles, parody songs, and memories from AGS meetings past, with a little preview of a song for this years meeting. We covered: The first parody song I wrote, for AGS 2018 in Orlando , about this article by Nancy Schoenborn on how to discuss stopping cancer screening. Nancy 04:51 Yeah.

IT 64

IT Hospital Screening Patients 64

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

After discussing screening options for substance use disorder, we go on to talk about both the treatments for it and the issues that arise. We got a couple of articles to discuss and a lot of different components of this. Eric: Which brings us to an article. We’re going to be covering it in both cancer and in aging.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

How should we screen for cognitive impairment? Who do you think we should be screening and how should we be screening them for these symptoms? Well, so I guess it depends on what you say screening. That screening influences kind of further treatment, actually, probably more importantly, patient outcomes.

Primary Care 96

Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 96

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Analyzing the Health and Retirement Study, she found 60% of older adults screened positive for depression in the last year of life (related study here ). We saw that around 60% of people were screening positive for depression in the last month before death. Or is it that I’m just not screening? That’s a lot.

Mental Health 122

Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. If I remember correctly, I think the average was, people were screening positive for depression in this study. I guess, I’d say, and I said this in the article, we saw more movement on the FACT-G subscales of social and emotional quality of life.

Patient-Centered 122

Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122