GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

I’m a dementia specialist, and so what I was experiencing was that many people were coming to see me to get a diagnosis of a very straightforward case of mild Alzheimer’s or moderate Alzheimer’s disease, whose doctors had told them there was nothing wrong with them or that their memory was better than my own, says the doctor.

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GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

Alex 13:24 Eric is pushing on the like, the clinical, practical stuff. Now, again, in the context of a busy clinical visit, you may not have the time to really go through it in detail. Eric 25:00 What do you do in clinical practice, Alison? Eric 13:23 Go ahead, Alex. It’s a really challenging area.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

But estimates in community dwelling older adults are around 15%. But again, most of my clinical practice, until recent years, has been in the acute care setting. And then when you look long-term care facilities, more between that like 35 to 50%, and then much higher estimates in hospitalized older adults.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Eric 00:27 So we’re going to be talking about making the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease in a primary care setting, not specialty care, but maybe we could talk a little bit about that. How much should it change how we think about making a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease in primary care? Great to be back. Absolutely.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

laugher] Alex: And, so we put them together and I feel like there’s been a real coming together of the Geriatrics and Palliative care communities and sort of cross-fertilization between the two and efforts between the two. So, I’m super proud of being able to reach out to people in rural communities. Lynn: Great.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

We need to figure out how to create this community of palliative care social work scholars. And then I found other folks that were practicing like I did. It creates that community where you’re like, “Oh, I’m not alone. And I’ve got a whole community of people to support me.”

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Alex: We are delighted to welcome Amber Barnato, who’s a palliative care physician and health service researcher, and she’s director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. So we did a perfect cross so that the race and actual primary diagnosis was perfectly matched across groups.

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