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How to Prepare for Your Preventive Care Visit

Mesa Family Physician

During this comprehensive wellness examination, your healthcare provider evaluates your current health status, screens for potential concerns based on your age, gender, and risk factors, and helps you develop strategies to maintain or improve your health moving forward.

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

GeriPal

It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. But, what you need is a community-based game there.

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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. So if you think about dementia, it’s on the intersection of aging stigma and mental health stigma. That never happens in CMS and other health insurance.