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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

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.

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Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

GeriPal

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.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

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?

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HIV, Aging, and Palliative Care: Peter Selwyn and Meredith Greene

GeriPal

And again, if you were to go to, you know, AIDS in terms of transmission is primarily a sexually transmitted disease of young adults, which is why it presented the way it did in the pre treatment era, really all over the world. Eric 18:59 What is the recommendation currently for HIV screening in older adults or in non older adults?

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What Is The Best Example Of Preventive Care?

Mesa Family Physician

Primary Prevention: Preventing Disease Before It Occurs Primary preventive care focuses on avoiding the development of disease entirely. These measures are taken before any evidence of disease or injury is present and are designed to prevent health problems from occurring in the first place.