GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

How should we screen for cognitive impairment? So let’s just say you have a healthy 55 year old or 65 year old in your clinic. Who do you think we should be screening and how should we be screening them for these symptoms? Well, so I guess it depends on what you say screening. Nate 05:29 Ooh.

Primary Care 95

Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 95

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

I don’t practice clinically in outpatient settings, and often the folks I’m seeing are there for other kinds of issues. That’s where it really gets to this individual risks and balances, individual situation. We and many others have tried to come up with a short, validated screening tool. Alex: Yeah.

Family 102

Family Families IT Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

So, how can we improve palliative care for individuals in nursing homes? The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. We also take a dive into these 2 articles that Connie first authored: Palliative care in nursing homes: A qualitative study on referral criteria and implications for research and practice.

Nurse Practitioner 78

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

We require, especially if they’re coming to us, we’re often making them come to our clinics if they’re going to get treatment, and we’re relying upon what they report to us, and are they going to tell us, “Oh, my steps are uneven and actually my railing’s all rickety and I’ve got boxes everywhere”?

Community 114

Community Transportation IT PCP 114

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

As Alex Lee says on our podcast today, all prognostic models will be wrong (in some circumstances and for some patients); our job is to make prognostic models that are clinically useful. As Sei Lee notes, the argument for developing prognostic models has won the day, and we increasingly use prognostic scores in clinical decision making.

IT 95

IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

It is a screening? Chaplains can do an assessment of the spirituality of the individual and then they use interventions that are part of their discipline and those interventions are tailored to the individual’s spiritual and religious needs of the person that they’re caring for. I guess FICA is not as cool as SKY.

IT 99

IT Patient-Centered Family Families 99

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Just an extraordinary cast of individuals who were really so incredibly inspiring. Our early studies were looking at things like, desire for death, and syndromal depression, and screening for depression and anxiety, and will to live. And I did a fellowship with Dr. Jimmy Holland and met just these incredible luminaries in our field.

Patient-Centered 98

Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

Now when I say variation, I’m not talking about small little clinically questionable variations. Ruth: I do have to also say that it’s important to remember that feeding tube use and hospital transfers for people with advanced dementia has no demonstrated clinical benefit. Joan: A lot of my work comes out of my clinical practice.

Nurse Practitioner 60

Nurse Practitioner Hospital Family Families 60

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

Joe: Well, the proposed rule changes would’ve included, for example, that you have to have a face-to-face encounter with a patient in order to prescribe over telemedicine, or you have to have received a referral from someone who did have a face-to-face, and they also would’ve had to be DEA certified. What state are they in?

Telemedicine 73

Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73