Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 19, 2025

MBC supports optimal clinical practice, demonstrates the value of integrated care teams, and improves outcomes. Rather, it is an evidence-based, collaborative process that mirrors the well-established framework of using physical symptom monitoring (e.g., Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 18(1), 104–110.

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Integrated Care Mental Health Healthcare Clinical Practice 100

GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) concluded back in 2000 that there is insufficient evidence to recommend for or against routine screening for dementia in older adults. If so, how do we screen and who do we screen? What should we use to screen individuals? Cognitive screening.

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Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 120

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.

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IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Join us as we dive deeper into these studies and discuss the implications for clinical practice and patient care. And there’s so much work on, you know, you’ve got to take these medicines, you got to prevent this treat, that there isn’t that same sort of clinical momentum towards deprescribing. Alex 15:36 Yeah.

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Specialization IT Patient-Centered Medical 120

GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

And it’s also hard because oftentimes people don’t even bring this up in clinic. Do you screen for lower urinary tract symptoms, incontinence, and if so, how? Eric 11:57 In, let’s say, my clinic. Alex 13:24 Eric is pushing on the like, the clinical, practical stuff. Eric 08:05 Yeah.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Clinic 121

GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

social worker, chaplain), everyone should be able to ask a question or two about spiritual concerns, social concerns, or physical concerns. 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. But how about you!

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Screening IT Families Family 121

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

We then walk through how we should screen for anxiety and how we should think about a differential. 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.

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Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 130