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RSV: Recognizing RSV Symptoms in Adults

Doctor On Demand

Updated January 22, 2025 Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is a common respiratory infection that can affect individuals of all ages, but it is particularly prevalent in young children and older adults. To start, you can schedule a video appointment with a board-certified doctor through the Doctor On Demand telehealth app or website.

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Should you have a coach? Greg Pawlson, Beth Griffiths, & Vicky Tang

GeriPal

Alex: We’re delighted to also welcome Greg Pawlson, who’s Senior Faculty at Lodestar Consulting & Executive Coaching and former President of the American Geriatric Society. Beth: Right now, I’m actually just doing individual coaching, but we are writing a grant to start group coaching next year. Beth: Thank you.

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When to Go to Urgent Care for a Sore Throat: How Can Urgent Care Help?

Doctor On Demand

In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals. A short-term sore throat may resolve on its own — monitor symptoms or consult a primary care doctor.

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Telehealth vs In-Person Palliative Care: A Podcast with Joseph Greer, Lynn Flint, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson

GeriPal

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Consultations versus telehealth. You get a consult if you get a consult.

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

GeriPal

MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. I’d be operating at the top of what I’m capable of doing, to provide really tailored and individualized care for my patients and their care partners, where they are. We joke about this a lot. Lyndsay: Yeah.

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

GeriPal

So, how can we improve palliative care for individuals in nursing homes? And so we do have consultants who come in the building. Connie 13:10 So generally what, what I see, very rural, is a nurse practitioner that’s out of our local home health and hospice agency that is palliative care certified. Eric 21:49 Yeah.

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Improving Nursing Home Quality: Jasmine Travers, Alice Bonner, Isaac Longobardi, and Mike Wasserman

GeriPal

Then wages and benefits, so ensuring competitive wages and benefits for the nursing home workforce, empowering the certified nursing assistant, increasing and improving recruitment and retention of the workforce. Of course, we acknowledge that there needs to be more pay, better pay and better benefits across the board.

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