Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Older adults with multiple chronic conditions are underrepresented in clinical trials, with especially low enrollment of Hispanic/Latino populations. Participants emphasized the role of family support and their reliance on adult children for decision-making and assistance with transportation and interpretation.

Clinic 130

Clinic Chronic Condition Transportation Family 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Results: Key priorities across all sectors included access to behavioral health, economic mobility, social cohesion, and transportation. Conclusions: This approach is a model for implementing cross-sectoral collaboratives to reduce diabetes and other chronic condition disparities through screening and referral for social needs

Community 130

Community Diabetes Referral Screening 130

Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

If swallowing is extremely painful and the fever is high, you may not have enough time to get to the ER safely without emergency transport. Less common causes Certain chronic conditions can cause a persistent sore throat, though they usually come with other distinct symptoms.

ER 52

ER Telehealth Primary Care Doctor Appointment 52

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

And often patients are told there’s no cardiovascular problem, you don’t have heart failure, you’re older, or maybe it’s from another chronic condition or. They see it’s preserved. And maybe there are multi organs involved in terms of us learning more and trying to approach patients a little differently.

Primary Care 113

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

This includes transportation, driver’s license, parks, volunteerism, housing, and of course health and human services. Utilizers costs about $400 billion a year to serve, have two chronic conditions and two limitations in some functional capacity, need help bathing, dressing, personal care, going to the bathroom, that type of thing.

Community 89

Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

So I think what’s really exciting is that these community-based organizations, some of those groups that provide training, transportation, respite care, all of that was never included. And those people have a higher, not just dementia, but other multiple chronic conditions. And that’s a big part of this new model.

Patient-Centered 125

Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In that clinical experience, we saw a lot of older adults who would develop acute illness, often exacerbations of their chronic conditions. If someone needs imaging, if someone needs an MR, or CT, you bring them back to the hospital, so there’s some transport costs there. Eric: Like imaging and labs.

Hospital 115

Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115