GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Many older adults lose decision-making capacity during serious illnesses, and a significant percentage lack family or friends to assist with decisions. And then the process of having a guardian and then trying to have that guardian ultimately removed is a difficult one for a patient who’s seriously ill.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

These are patients who had a pre-existing chronic disease, very broadly defined. COPD, heart failure, solid oncology, hematologic malignancy, dementia, ALS, interstitial lung disease, several others. Alex: Recently you talked about the other trial, also with a nudge, and that was non-cancer, serious illness. Kate: Sure.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

So it felt like it was being part of this huge kind of change in the whole environment and the whole experience of that community. 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.

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Vida Family Medicine

JANUARY 18, 2022

Preventive care is about preventing diseases before they start, or catching them early enough that they can be treated or cured. While this is not possible for every illness, the vast majority of diseases that impact our quality of life or cause premature death can be prevented or cured with simple preventive care.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

If you are interested in learning more and meeting a community of folks interested in hospital-at-home, check out the hospital-at-home user group at hahusersgroup.org or some of these publications: Hospital-Level Care at Home for Acutely Ill Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial. How is it financed and what comes next?

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Doctors for America

MAY 13, 2025

As physicians, we know intimately the impact tobacco-related illnesses and deaths have on families and our communities. The administration has stated that ending the chronic disease epidemic is central to the goal of “making America healthy again,” but this decision flies in the face of that goal.

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Physicians News Digest

APRIL 17, 2025

in 2022, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We will leave no stone unturned in identifying the root causes of the chronic disease epidemic as part of our mission to Make America Healthy Again,” Hilliard said. Adolescents and young adults ages 13 to 24 accounted for 1 in 5 new HIV infections in the U.S.

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