GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

The beautiful thing about it, it’s more than just having a career development award; it’s a community of aging researchers. One of the highlights really is the networking and the community that it fosters and highlighted, in some ways, by the meeting, which of course you often lead the sing along at. I agree with you.

Physicals 85

Physicals IT Hypertension Education 85

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.

IT 120

IT Patient-Centered Patients Clinic 120

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Knowing that the community is really underrepresented in sort of our knowledge, what we do, how we provide care that’s truly inclusive and welcoming. For instance, our indigenous communities, such as some of our indigenous communities use the Term two spirit, to identify their sexual orientation and also sometimes their gender identity.

Individual 81

Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 81

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

So, the question becomes, what, if anything, should we do differently in the primary care setting to diagnose the disease? We address the following questions with Nate: Has anything changed for the primary care doctor when diagnosing Alzheimers? But these tests were never designed to diagnose. Does a good history matter anymore?

Primary Care 95

Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 95

GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

So GFR was adjusted based on race, which it probably did lead to African-American patients being diagnosed with chronic kidney disease later in their disease trajectory, as compared to others. You go into this community, perform this study, you leave. I probably should have said GFR. Eric: Yes. I just choose GFR. You publish the paper.

IT 91

IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Patients 91

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

As a springboard for this conversation we discuss new prognostic models developed to predict (simultaneously) mortality, disability, and mobility impairment ( Alex Lee first author, JAGS ) and mortality for people with dementia residing in the community ( James Deardorff first author, JAMA IM ). . Alex, what other decisions? Alex Lee: Sure.

IT 95

IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

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.

Illness 133

Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 133