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

Nicole: I was just going to add that I think a helpful analogy for me has been to think about our clinical assessment, sort of like if a physical therapist just stood at the door with their ear up to the door to listen if a patient fell, and then made a recommendation plan for exercise.

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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

JUNE 27, 2024

But often what we’re talking about is this experience that we can describe physically inside of our body, the sensation that we’re having as we’re anticipating that things may go wrong or badly in some kind of way. So it tends to be future oriented and tends to show up as a physical sensation in our body.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Anne: Which episode of the GeriPal podcast has most significantly changed your clinical practice? I think that has been my biggest change in my clinical practice as far as prescribing is thinking about how we can better care for individuals and think about the risks of Opioids too. Eric: I’ve heard that before.

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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. They look at the signs and symptoms, they do a physical exam, maybe some lab tests or some imaging.

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