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

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.

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Physicals IT Hypertension Education 86

The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

It can diagnose six types of common skin conditions – pimples, acne, scars, dark spots, pigmentation, and dark circles. Searchable by symptoms, signs, and patient factors, it represents the fastest path to a customised differential diagnosis. Cureskin aims to help alleviate the situation. recommends an eight-week skincare regimen.

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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? How should we screen for cognitive impairment? Does a good history matter anymore?

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Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 96

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

The researchers recommended including community members in intervention design, healthcare systems, and policies. This message should be incorporated into counseling during routine clinic visits, especially for people recently diagnosed with HIV. Community-based organizations led by Black women may be even more impactful.

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Mental Health Healthcare Professional Community Healthcare 114

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.

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Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 82

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. Certainly my bias is that healthcare professionals really do have a role in this discussion. “Do you guys do this?” Eric: Yeah.

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IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

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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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

But in reality, given workforce shortages and just the challenges and the resources necessary to be able to provide early integrated palliative care from the time of diagnosis of advanced cancer, the model simply is not implementable, at least not in our current state with our available infrastructure and resources. Joe 41:30 Yeah.

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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

So she had them early in diagnosis and then a little bit later. I just love her conclusion because what she realizes is when you’re first diagnosed… This is research. That’s what normal means when you’re first diagnosed, wanting to go back to before the illness. Brad: Yeah. It was a complete shock.

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Illness IT Diagnose Medical 128

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

We need to figure out how to create this community of palliative care social work scholars. It creates that community where you’re like, “Oh, I’m not alone. And I’ve got a whole community of people to support me.” What does this diagnosis mean to you? And that was really how SWHPN started.

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IT Family Families Clinic 102

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In general, the case is a patient who wound up with a new diagnosis of metastatic cancer during the course of the admission and at a certain point had full capacity, was able to make decisions and communicate. Eric: Lynn or Anne? But there was an impact on us as a team too. Lynn: Sure. Anne Rohlfing: Yeah. Emily: Yeah.

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Family Families Patient-Centered IT 98

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Jennifer: Yeah, so I think as all the listeners of this podcast know, and I know he did do a podcast with you guys when he was still able to verbally communicate, with Randy Curtis’ diagnosis of, I keep wanting to say AML, ALS. I have oncology on the brain. And most people just haven’t dealt with that before.

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. Eric: If I remember your article correctly, there was maybe some better things with for-profits, like more community engagement with low-income communities and more engagement with minority communities.

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Family Families IT Patients 106

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

And then second, I was someone who was a Parrot Head for years and years and it was just amazing how the community came together. That was really the theme song of how the community came together. Our folks all die of congestive heart failure and dementia, even oncology diagnoses with new immunotherapies like the old days.

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Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

And then for Hsien and for Sammy, this is a real social movement that you’re trying to… The movement upstream, getting people to consider what are the serious issues at the time of diagnosis with serious illness. So that’s kind of what unifies us, I would say. Everyone is so lovely and helpful to each other.

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Education IT Illness Healthcare 127

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

Alex: Self-administer and psychiatric illness is not considered a qualifying diagnosis. The last time we had you on the podcast, Bill, you talked about your cancer diagnosis and a personal experience with MAID, which you also, we’ll have a link to your blog post too about this as well. So they have to self-administer. Eric: Yeah.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

And when you and I talk about, what’s the key medical decision or diagnosis that we’re making all the time, we’re making a decision about like, “Is this patient sick enough to die? So we did a perfect cross so that the race and actual primary diagnosis was perfectly matched across groups.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Healthcare 111

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 ). . Those have a very, very long time horizon.

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IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

So let’s say a patient who has lung cancer, relatively newly diagnosed, has a long history of substance use disorder, had been taking methadone as an outpatient, and now has this pain. You know the case. Eric 31:10 Okay, do the case. Alex 31:10 Do the case. Because we just talked about methadone. Pearls tips?

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Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 73

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Alex: We’ve got a lot to talk about…what states are doing and cities are doing to support older adults in the community. But, what you need is a community-based game there. The long-term care is being actually provided in the community at a much higher rate than what the formal system provides. You go back home.

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, for example, everyone who was diagnosed with an advanced or metastatic lung cancer had a prognosis on the order of months. Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease. Eric 16:38 So everybody was diagnosed with an advanced lung cancer sometime in the last twelve weeks and then they were randomized. Eric 29:20 Yeah.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

One in 10 people with newly diagnosed HIV is an older adult. And over that first 15 years, which was a very difficult time when there was no treatment at all available, everybody died and usually within months or a year or two of when they were diagnosed. And I also read that 1 out of 10 newly diagnosed HIV cases are in older adults.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Provider 94

GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Mike Rabow shares his award winning poem about coming out to the world about his diagnosis with multiple sclerosis. . Redwing: When you’re diagnosed with cancer, the first thing you think about is when you’re going to die. This has become a community of people all over the world who come together every week.

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Patient-Centered IT Community Illness 93

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. Before the primary care visit. Danny 10:07 Yep, that was the goal.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 79

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

So this is about two and a half, three years out from leukemia diagnosis. And the point of that is that so many people, in my experience, and I’m sure it’s the same initial diagnosis of cancer, that’s the last thing that I want to talk about. And I said, sure. And I had that mortified look on my face of God.

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

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. The PPS is one of the most widely used prognostic tools for seriously ill patients, but the prognostic estimates given by the PPS are based on data that is well over a decade old.

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Family Families Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Eric: And looking back at that time, what do you think the healthcare system could have done to help with that? With your journey, with your dad’s journey- Diane: They could have diagnosed him earlier. They could have diagnosed him earlier. So that’s I think diagnoses. But it was also later on in the disease.

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Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125

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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