GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

There’s an article about her in New York Times. And so certainly from a family’s perspective, a family caregiver perspective, the last thing we want to have when it comes to good dementia care is a diagnose and audio scenario, or in this case, some type of screening result, and then we’ll see you again in six months.

Screening 120

Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 120

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

She was resuscitated by EMS, but did not regain higher brain function, and was eventually diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state. This topic came up with Bernie published an article in New England Journal called Deciding for Patients Who Have Lost Decision-Making Capacity Finding Common Ground in Medical Ethics.

Families 113

Families Family Patient-Centered IT 113

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

And so I began to think about the training that I had and that there was no mental health condition that was diagnosed. I’m wondering, you talked about that patient who was really isolated and coming to the emergency room. In fact from the time he was diagnosed, he passed away within two and a half weeks.

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IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 100

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

The idea was to create a robust community-based infrastructure that could help older adults succeed in their homes and communities, whether they were healthy, how to keep them healthy or they were at imminent risk of emergency room visits, hospitalizations, or nursing home placements. There have been some fabulous national articles.

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Eric: And looking back at that time, what do you think the healthcare system could have done to help with that? With your journey, with your dad’s journey- Diane: They could have diagnosed him earlier. They could have diagnosed him earlier. So that’s I think diagnoses. And we find out, oh, there is no demand.

Patient-Centered 126

Patient-Centered IT Families Family 126