GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

It’s under recognized, under diagnosed, under treated, under discussed, understudied as a result. But that combination is actually quite common, and it’s quite challenging to diagnose and manage, at least in the traditional sense. Clinicians don’t ask about it. George 19:37 Exactly, exactly. Alison 29:08 Yes.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

But estimates in community dwelling older adults are around 15%. Eric: And swallowing is complicated, right? You see something on a bedside swallow, or on a FEES, you’re diagnosing what you think it is. Are there things that we can do to prevent the complication of aspiration, which we most fear, aspiration pneumonia?

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

James Martínez, family medicine physician at Community Health Partners, explains: “Preventive care represents one of the most powerful tools we have in medicine. Identifying health concerns before symptoms appear gives us tremendous advantages in treatment success and minimizing long-term complications.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

How HHS and ASPE solicit input from clinicians, community leaders, and older adults and how much it impacts policy decisions (spoiler alert: this involvement is CRUCIAL). There’s a team now with them behind them making sure that they stay safe and held in our communities. How to make your voice heard and get involved.

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PEMBlog

JUNE 2, 2025

While elevated blood pressure readings are critical data points, the presence of symptoms and signs of end-organ dysfunction are paramount in diagnosing a hypertensive emergency (Kamat 2024). Additional lab testing can be completed to account for the broader differential diagnoses. A value of > or = 50 ng/mL is considered abnormal.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

But then once it was open, started seeing a lot of other populations: not just our own hospital population, but a lot more just community members calling with concerns about driving. If they’re in a major car crash, they’re going to have more long-term complications probably than a 20-year-old would. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

So at least in my oncology community, I really didn’t have anyone guiding or supporting or mentoring me. Eric: So now we’re getting this issue of do we have to change things for different diagnoses, different cancer? You were focused on physical and psychological distress and symptoms. I loved Areej’s article.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

We need this type of push to make us feel that we are part of a community and we are part of a movement and things are changing because we are around. Thank you for that gift to our community and to the patients. We have an epidemic of BMI and therefore never use the way the patient looks like to diagnose cachexia.

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Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 134

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

So we’re going to be talking about this complicated topic that a lot of people have differing opinions to and potentially very strong opinions, medical aid in dying. There was no communication on my part that was anything intolerable about my situation. So figured out a little harmonica- Eric: That was wonderful.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Don 13:50 Well, you know, I think one of the issues, though, when you ask about prevalence data, especially, say, in the oncology world, not only does it matter about how you ask the questions, but because it’s such a complicated topic, people may infer very different things as to what you’re talking about. Sharon 15:21 Right.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

The reason I chose this song is because I’m currently working on bringing advanced care planning sessions to the Latino community. In our planning sessions, one of the biggest barriers to advanced care planning in this community is just talking about death. The intervention itself is very straightforward.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Next, we talk with James Deardorff about whether we can accurately predict nursing home level of care in community-dwelling older adults with dementia. So how physically active the patient is, how much time they spend awake, how much they’re eating, how much care they need, that type of thing. Eric 05:50 Yeah.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

If you are interested in learning more and meeting a community of folks interested in hospital-at-home, check out the hospital-at-home user group at hahusersgroup.org or some of these publications: Hospital-Level Care at Home for Acutely Ill Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial. You can broaden the scope of diagnoses.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

Wible held town hall meetings and she invited citizens in her community to design their own ideal clinic. Open since 2005 her community clinic has inspired Americans to create ideal hospitals and clinics nationwide. It’s dangerous and unsustainable; emotionally, physically, spiritually, financially for the patients—and for us.

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