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. And he liked some of what I was doing, which was really on diabetes and hearing loss. So they’re left out.

IT 102

IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

Permanente Medicine

JUNE 3, 2025

Dr. Marcos highlights some groundbreaking practices at Kaiser Permanente, like enhancing booking systems and smoothing the onboarding process for new members to increase satisfaction. The patient reached out to me and asked what I thought or recommended because I had built that relationship with that patient, I had built that trust.

IT 52

IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 52

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Because a lot of my colleagues, who are like transplant coordinators for example, are asking, “Can you help us better screened for which older adults would be fit enough to go for transplant? There’s really no added extra resource or time that the coordinators really need to put to doing the screening, themselves.

Patient-Centered 130

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 130

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

So those types of relationships, clergy, non family members, we talk about, I think cohabitating unmarried couples. So you mentioned the burden of chronic multimorbidity and sort of flogging through the diabetes and the hypertension. But I think the most important thing is just to, to recognize, to ask these types of questions.

Patient-Centered 110

Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 110

GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

Elizabeth Eckstrom is a geriatrician, professor of medicine at OHSU, and author of a new book, the Gift of Aging. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston have no relationships to disclose. Eric 08:13 And Elizabeth, you just read a book. Go on, Anna.

IT 118

IT Diabetes Chronic Disease Patient-Centered 118

GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

Eric 18:59 What is the recommendation currently for HIV screening in older adults or in non older adults? Or is the aging process and development of serious illness so similar to people who are not living with HIV that we can sort of move on and consider it, you know, sort of like diabetes, for example. Who wants to go first?

Primary Care 96

Primary Care IT Clinic Provider 96

GeriPal

DECEMBER 1, 2023

But there’s some level of glycosylated hemoglobin which very neatly correlates with abnormal glucose tolerance, which is diabetes, or is amyloid like mitotic figures spreading beyond the basement membrane? Diabetes, you see the same thing. You have pre-diabetes now. Lon: No, that’s a straight out screen.

IT 117

IT Clinic Illness Hypertension 117