Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

An expert panel unveiled a preoperative cannabis use assessment tool to aid in planning informed, individualized anesthesia and analgesia patient care. An expert panel has created a preoperative cannabis use assessment tool to aid healthcare professionals in planning informed, individualized anesthesia and analgesia care for patients.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

We also talk about the importance of a proactive approach to involving speech-language pathologists in the care of individuals early on with neurodegenerative diseases like dementia and ALS. So as you mentioned, dementia, there’s some research that show about 86% or 93% of those individuals will get that. Raele: Yes, of course.

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IT Patient-Centered Hospital Individual 124

GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

George 03:01 So I would say that as many clinical issues in older adults, we need to think about them in two ways. Incontinence and avoiding issues can present in an older individual, in some cases, just like they do a younger person. Biological aging or physiological aging varies from individual to individual.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Clinic 120

GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

What should we use to screen individuals? And this is, of course, an old and foundational idea about clinical practice. The post Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 119

GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

But two, a very close relationship with potentially the palliative care physician or the individual who’s Sort of managing their pain, because the simulation itself can be 20 to 30 minutes of lying in that specific treatment position. Sometimes individuals have lung tumors that make it difficult for them to breathe.

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Patient-Centered Referral Patients IT 102

GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

Complicated grief? And I’ll just say that I think what we know is there’s been so much greater advance care planning research and and at many levels, at a at an individual level, at a health system level, at a policy level. And then individuals will still have questions of really, how can I help my wishes to be known?

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Community IT Patient-Centered Primary Care 96

GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

FDA is considering approval, shifting away from Schedule I restrictions, paving the way for use in clinical practice. Alex: It’s complicated. We, for very complicated reasons, ended up with niacin. Legalization is moving forward in several states , following the lead of Oregon and Colorado. Eric: Yeah.

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Patient-Centered Community IT Medical 91