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Beyond Training: How Context Matters for Early Detection of Alzheimers Disease in Primary Care [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objectives Describe perspectives of clinicians and implementation leads on the role of primary care in ADRD early detection. Setting Primary care settings in the DAC-SP early detection program. clinical consensus, financing mechanisms) and the organization (e.g.,

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Debating the pros and cons of Medicare for All

The Health Policy Exchange

primary care physicians accept Medicare, and Medicare enrollment has been associated with improvements in age-specific mortality relative to peer nations. health care bill. fewer cancer screenings, more conservative prescribing of statins) or declining to cover some beneficial but very expensive therapies.

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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

GeriPal

So, the question becomes, what, if anything, should we do differently in the primary care setting to diagnose the disease? On todays podcast, weve invited Nathaniel Chin back to the GeriPal podcast to talk about what primary care needs to manage this new world of Alzheimers disease effectively. Great to be back.

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

GeriPal

Kathleen 14:03 I mean, back to Cari’s, you know, what Cari was talking about, about financial barriers to palliative care services in the nursing home setting. Eric 14:32 So there’s financial disincentives for interdisciplinary palliative care teams. So they were a lot of preoccupied with other tasks, but clinical gestalt.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

This study explored nursing home organizational factors and staff perceptions that are associated with the variation in care for residents with advanced dementia. Now when I say variation, I’m not talking about small little clinically questionable variations. Eric: … there was care processes. We didn’t respond.