GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) concluded back in 2000 that there is insufficient evidence to recommend for or against routine screening for dementia in older adults. If so, how do we screen and who do we screen? What should we use to screen individuals? Cognitive screening.

Screening 119

Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 119

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Analyzing the Health and Retirement Study, she found 60% of older adults screened positive for depression in the last year of life (related study here ). We saw that around 60% of people were screening positive for depression in the last month before death. Or is it that I’m just not screening? That’s a lot.

Mental Health 122

Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

If you’re in the outpatient setting, Tim, and you’re seeing somebody in clinic and you’re worried that they’re heading towards a path where, you know, their chronic diseases are getting worse, we may have to make some decisions. What do I do? For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 109

GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

But at any age, like, as Emily said, it is so important to pay attention to nutrition and healthy eating because it’s not just about, oh, chronic disease prevention or even treatment and management. The time it takes to look at chronic disease prevention or outcomes is just, it’s in the word chronic.

IT 116

IT Diabetes Chronic Disease Patient-Centered 116

GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

Eric 18:59 What is the recommendation currently for HIV screening in older adults or in non older adults? So I think I remember the early years, once this became more of a chronic disease, I would go to these ID meetings and people would be wringing their hands saying, well, I don’t know how to treat diabetes.

Primary Care 94

Primary Care IT Provider Clinic 94