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Traditional vs. Subscription Primary Care Payment Model: Which Fits You?

Plum Health

Real-Life Scenarios Let’s go through a few common scenarios to see which model might offer better savings: Scenario 1: The Healthy Individual Seeking Preventative Care If you’re generally healthy and just need an annual check-up and a couple of minor visits per year, subscription care could be the winner.

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Rethinking Opioid Conversions: Mary Lynn McPherson and Drew Rosielle

GeriPal

But I think people would have an embolic event if you gave them a flipping range. You take their age, their gender, you take their chronic conditions. And then again, individualizing it to the patient. Eric: Drew, both of our fourth step is individualizing it. So, it’s exactly what I have in the chart.

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

We talk with Nick and Meg about: Why hearing loss is important not just in geriatrics but also for those caring for seriously ill individuals. Communication techniques we can use when talking to individuals with hearing loss. But individuals who have hearing loss, there’s several problems. How to screen for hearing loss.

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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

GeriPal

We talk about what is heart failure, particularly HFpEF, how we treat it (including the use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2’s), and how we should apply guidelines to individual patients, especially those with multimorbidity who are taking a lot of other medications. But we’re not perfect individuals.

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Psychedelics – reasons for caution: Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, Theora Cimino

GeriPal

Today we largely focus on reasons for caution, including: We know almost nothing about psychedelics in older adults – only about 1% of patients in published trials were older adults, much less older adults with multiple chronic conditions, multiple medications, and frailty. There is a marked lack of diversity in published trials.

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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. Again, as Greg said, where the individual chooses what works best for them. But, for a majority, it’s a first time event. To Susan’s point. They touch every single system.

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Optimizing Nutrition in Aging: A Podcast with Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston

GeriPal

So if you already have a condition, you might be able to prevent events. And for any, any diet, it can, we can really tweak it to an individual’s preferences, their needs, that kind of thing. It’s ideal to have a good, healthy, balanced diet through your whole life, but it’s never too late.

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