GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Her most recent book is Dementia Friendly Communities: why we need them and how we can create them . It is a heavy load and yet I think all of us here think that it can be lighter when there are supportive programs and community engagements in place. And that’s why we need this community support, I think. Transcript.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

There’s an article about her in New York Times. So people who have Medicare mostly fee for service in a dementia diagnosis should have access to a care, essentially a care navigator for the duration of their condition, or at least the duration of the program. But it seems very apropos to the topic. Anna 01:38 Yeah. Here we go.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

But estimates in community dwelling older adults are around 15%. We don’t have to go into that, but I do want to highlight, you had a JAGS article that was published on pre-hospitalization dysphagia and feeding tube placement in nursing home residents with advanced dementia. Eric: Great. Raele: Blind Melon. Eric: Blind Melon.

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

The beautiful thing about it, it’s more than just having a career development award; it’s a community of aging researchers. One of the highlights really is the networking and the community that it fosters and highlighted, in some ways, by the meeting, which of course you often lead the sing along at. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Eric 00:27 So we’re going to be talking about making the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease in a primary care setting, not specialty care, but maybe we could talk a little bit about that. How much should it change how we think about making a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease in primary care? Great to be back. Absolutely.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

So say you have somebody new diagnosis, you’ve just put them on Metformin and something else, and you slap a CGM on them and they can see it. And they also start to equate the symptoms of hyperglycemia, which happen often over 180, maybe over 200 for newer diagnosis folk with those high blood sugars. Eric: Practical advice.

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Edge Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

At Edge Family Medicine , we provide comprehensive in-person care , ensuring accurate diagnosis and effective treatment for conditions requiring a physical assessment. Convenient location in Upland, CA , serving nearby communities. Lab work & imaging , including blood tests and X-rays. Why Choose Edge Family Medicine?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

How HHS and ASPE solicit input from clinicians, community leaders, and older adults and how much it impacts policy decisions (spoiler alert: this involvement is CRUCIAL). There’s a team now with them behind them making sure that they stay safe and held in our communities. How to make your voice heard and get involved.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

The ability to appreciate, recognize, and engage with music is preserved even until late stages of dementia, and Theresa is examining how music can be useful from the time of diagnosis, not only for the person with dementia, but their caregivers. And I was looking for articles, and I wasn’t seeing as many as I expected.

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PEMBlog

JUNE 2, 2025

What you can expect to learn from this article: Recognize signs of end-organ injury when BP is 95th percentile + 30 mmHg. Before your blood pressure rises as well, know that this PEMBlog article is here to provide an overview of the recognition and management of hypertensive emergencies.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Find out on this weeks podcast where we invite Joseph Greer, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson to talk about their recent JAMA article on Telehealth vs In-Person Early Palliative Care for Patients With Advanced Lung Cancer – A Multisite Randomized Clinical Trial. It’s the same measure we used in the New England journal article.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

He is also author of the book, “ Walk with the Weary: Lessons in Humanity in Health Care ,” and was featured in this Atlantic article. Prognosis communication and the subtle ways we may communicate it without intention. Community-based palliative care networks . It’s easier to concentrate on cure, diagnosis, cure.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

I actually do some consulting work with a company called the Farmstand that’s based in a community called the Villages in Florida. And it’s to the degree that any retirement community could be described as a party town, this is a party town made the news not too long ago for having a really high incidence of STD’s.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

And I just want to highlight, Jennifer has a great JPSM article that just came out. Would you also just mind mentioning kind of the JPSM article too? What drove you to write that article on this important trip to Seattle? And my article is about when I was a mid to junior faculty member trying to build this career.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

So in preparation for this, I read a couple articles about social work leadership in palliative care. And the title of his article is, does culture of modern day palliative care social work leave room for leadership, where he interviewed six leaders in palliative care, five or six for social workers. Eric: All right, Barbara.

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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. And so the article focuses on the work of these three men who were mostly gang involved and did something really bad when they were young.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The ones who are publishing interesting articles are easy as we knew MAID is always going to be a controversial topic. Because this is not… Our traditional academic route of dissemination is focusing on communities that don’t have a lot of access to Geriatrics or Palliative care or learning opportunities. Lynn: Great.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Check out the Pub Crawl GeriPal post for more info, and follow #HPMParty on Twitter to keep us as we crawl! ** In the last several years, I’ve seen more and more articles about end-of-life doulas ( like this NY Times article from 2021 ). That was really the theme song of how the community came together. How do you see the light?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

You’re a senior author on this article in JPSM, where you interviewed some geriatricians and other people caring for older adults, nurse practitioners, social workers, et cetera. So she had them early in diagnosis and then a little bit later. We could have talked for hours! You interviewed some geriatricians. Brad: Yeah.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. It’s something we need to pay attention to, which is what we were talking about in the article. People with dementia make up about half of hospice admissions. Melissa: Sure. I threw out a lot.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

I you use the Lee Schonberg prognostic index for community dwelling older adults you will be directed to the tool, and it will automatically place the life expectancy at the calculated prognostic estimate. . He will post like articles that he’s read highlighted with key points noted, absolute treasure. See screenshot below.

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GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

I will say one of the challenges in the field is many hospices don’t know how to take care of children or young people, and so you have these folks in the community who you’re trying to provide services to, and you just can’t connect them to the same types of resources you’re used to using. Who’s your community?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Today we talk with Anne Rohlfing, Lynn Flint, and Anne Kelly, authors of a JGIM article on the reasons we shouldn’t stop at “no.” In general, the case is a patient who wound up with a new diagnosis of metastatic cancer during the course of the admission and at a certain point had full capacity, was able to make decisions and communicate.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

As a springboard for this conversation we discuss new prognostic models developed to predict (simultaneously) mortality, disability, and mobility impairment ( Alex Lee first author, JAGS ) and mortality for people with dementia residing in the community ( James Deardorff first author, JAMA IM ). . I think mortality is the final end path.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

In today’s podcast we talk with surgeon Samir Shah and Health Services Researcher Joel Weissman about a pair of JAGS articles they published on the outcomes of high risk surgery and advance care planning among persons with dementia. Fifty percent have a diagnosis in their record of decedents have dementia. Eric: Yeah. Joel: Yeah.

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BMJ

MAY 10, 2022

Introductory article to İkİIşik H, Sezerol MA, Taşçı Y, et alCOVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and related factors among primary healthcare workers in a district of Istanbul: a cross-sectional study from TurkeyFamily Medicine and Community Health 2022;10:e001430. COVID-19 diagnosis of self Yes 24 (44.4) Fam Med Community Health.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

Alex: Self-administer and psychiatric illness is not considered a qualifying diagnosis. The last time we had you on the podcast, Bill, you talked about your cancer diagnosis and a personal experience with MAID, which you also, we’ll have a link to your blog post too about this as well. So they have to self-administer. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Additional links mentioned in the podcast: Recent JGIM article on POLST in California nursing homes, hospitalization, and nursing home care Karl’s GeriPal post on appropriate use of POLST Enjoy! Gretchen Schwarze like surgery, four things, live longer, feel better, be more functional, make a diagnosis. OK, I’ll step off my soap box.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

But that was my take home from Danny’s article. And I just want to also highlight, we’ll have a show note because there is a great JPSM article that he wrote that describes this clinic that he created with his colleagues. Why am I feeling frustrated with this patient? That was my take home. So I love that you brought it up.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Holly has accumulated mountains of evidence for the diagnosis of prolonged grief disorder as a specific condition primarily notable for a yearning over a year after the death. And I got from your article, while the peaks follow this pattern, people feel a lot of different things where it just reminds me of the times I’ve grieved.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Alex: We’ve got a lot to talk about…what states are doing and cities are doing to support older adults in the community. But, what you need is a community-based game there. The long-term care is being actually provided in the community at a much higher rate than what the formal system provides. You go back home.

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Tsai-Chin’s article, published in Lancet Healthy Longevity, found a tantalizing hint that countries with stronger safety nets had lower incidence of wealth shocks, and less of a deleterious impact of the wealth shock on cognitive function. And a couple of classic articles in this area. Alex 07:21 Yeah, I think that’s great.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So you, Jennifer, probably have, like, the most cited, probably should be the most cited randomized controlled trial of palliative care and lung cancer patients that everybody, every palliative care article I’ve seen, whether or not it works, always includes, it was outpatient palliative care in lung cancer patients. All of this is.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 12, 2025

He has no record in the scientific community of doing valid work,” said Dr. Walter Orenstein , a former CDC immunization director. In a 2005 article for Rolling Stone that was later retracted, Kennedy claimed government officials had buried data showing a link between vaccines and autism, The Wall Street Journal said.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

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? Yeah, for sure.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Mike Rabow shares his award winning poem about coming out to the world about his diagnosis with multiple sclerosis. . Look also for a forthcoming article by Mike and Redwing in Journal of Pain and Symptom Management on poetry as a healing modality, to be published mid May (will add link when out). Institute for Poetic Medicine.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

So it felt like it was being part of this huge kind of change in the whole environment and the whole experience of that community. A review article, which I still like to go to. Is a new diagnosis of HIV. If they did, it was before AIDS was a diagnosis. Peter 08:06 Yeah, generally that’s true. And I also remember.

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