GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Was there any mention about the impact that hearing loss has in communication or what we should do about it in clinical practice? Screening for addressing hearing loss should be an integral part of what we do in geriatrics and palliative care, but it often is either a passing thought or completely ignored. I’m guessing not.

IT 102

IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

So we took this idea of, and it’s really an invitation from the national consensus project that every member of the team should be screening in all domains. So this is a practical, really basic idea that can be applied to clinical practice. So that means that we all screen for every domain in our interactions.

Screening 121

Screening IT Families Family 121

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

After discussing screening options for substance use disorder, we go on to talk about both the treatments for it and the issues that arise. So, we are not screening for substance use in cancer care, so we don’t get good estimates among people with cancer, which is really how we would prefer to ask the question. Katie: Yeah.

Illness 137

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 137

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Ashwin Kotwal: Yeah, and Thomas, I know this is something we’ve talked about as a group too, which is how do you translate some of these scales that we use in large studies to our clinical practice? Thomas: But the person did screen and used a little bit of the and Social Network Scale and the UCLA Loneliness Scale.

IT 100

IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 100

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

Ruth: Very strong odor, devoid of furniture, broken screens … Eric: So it was the physical environment and … Ruth: Physical environment. Joan: A lot of my work comes out of my clinical practice. But we did see a trend where the three highest nursing homes were the most unpleasant.

Nurse Practitioner 60

Nurse Practitioner Hospital Families Family 60