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How to Prepare for Your Preventive Care Visit

Mesa Family Physician

Many patients find that health questions arise between appointments but get forgotten during the actual visit. Review your family health history, particularly any new diagnoses among blood relatives since your last appointment. Regular preventive visits during this period help identify and address emerging health risks.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. To Susan’s point. Older people don’t live in the Offices for the Aging. They touch every single system. I won’t even get into problem gambling.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. 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.