GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

And so certainly from a family’s perspective, a family caregiver perspective, the last thing we want to have when it comes to good dementia care is a diagnose and audio scenario, or in this case, some type of screening result, and then we’ll see you again in six months. It can’t be diagnosed and adios.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

PEMPix is the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine’s annual visual diagnosis competition. What’s the Diagnosis? Bronchopulmonary sequestration Our patient was diagnosed with bronchopulmonary sequestration (BPS). Time course of symptom resolution in patients with community-acquired pneumonia.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

But estimates in community dwelling older adults are around 15%. And then when you look long-term care facilities, more between that like 35 to 50%, and then much higher estimates in hospitalized older adults. Eric: And why is it more common in hospitalized adults? What happens after they develop dysphagia in the hospital?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

There’s a team now with them behind them making sure that they stay safe and held in our communities. How we came about to select these articles or to have interest in this topic is really older adults are unique population that are at risk for both over diagnosis of infections as well as under diagnosis of infections.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

It can diagnose six types of common skin conditions – pimples, acne, scars, dark spots, pigmentation, and dark circles. 8) VisualDx Thousands of hospitals, clinics, and medical schools use VisualDx to aid diagnostic accuracy, enhance medical education, and improve patient outcomes. Cureskin aims to help alleviate the situation.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

I’ve worked in hospital settings as an occupational therapist, inpatient rehab and outpatient rehab. Emmy: I was seeing people in the hospital setting, saying they had had a massive brain injury. Emmy: Ended up starting a program, outpatient at our hospital at the time. How did you get interested in this? Emmy: Yeah.

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PEMBlog

JUNE 2, 2025

Hypertensive emergency is a clinical diagnosis characterized by a sudden and severe elevation in blood pressure accompanied by signs of acute end-organ dysfunction. 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 28, 2022

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. So at least in my oncology community, I really didn’t have anyone guiding or supporting or mentoring me. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Jennifer. Jennifer: Thanks.

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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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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Imagine her hearing for the first time that you’re sick, that you’re hospitalized, that you’re in the ICU, and that you can’t make your own decisions? ” and the answer is no, that probably was more just about do you need anybody to support you kind of emotionally or during this hospital stay, just give information to.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

Alex: She’s also associate professor at Massachusetts General Hospital in Harvard Medical School. 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. Did I say it right, Lund? Juliet: Lund, yeah.

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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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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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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. For-profit hospices having much higher rates of their patients visiting the emergency department and being hospitalized, in addition to disenrollment. There’s a cost avoidance aspect to it, too.

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Family Families IT Patients 107

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? It also feels like, I also grew up in med school in a three hospital system. There’s that recognition piece. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

I see this in the hospital when I’m doing addiction medicine consults. We got admitted to the hospital, our inpatient palliative team developed their skill set because they had a place to send patients when they got discharged. He’s now hospitalized to break up that methadone into three times a day dosing.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

Alex: Self-administer and psychiatric illness is not considered a qualifying diagnosis. So I didn’t mention this at the beginning, but after my time as President of Canadian Psychiatric Association, I actually also went on to be the physician chair of my former hospital’s MAID team. So they have to self-administer.

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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. Alex: Generally in the hospital-based hospice. Matt: I’m more of a hospital guy. Sammy: Oh, okay.

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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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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To describe individual characteristics and healthcare use in older adults with SMI across home care services (HCS) profiles before and after the first dementia diagnosis. Group 1 consisted of older individuals, mainly diagnosed in the hospital and with poorer COC. Study Design and Analysis: Retrospective cohort study.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Alex 00:34 We are delighted to welcome back Jennifer Tem e l, who is a thoracic oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. 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.

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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. Equally as important, is if you wind up in an ED or being hospitalized or wind up in rehab, eventually you’re going to be discharged back home.

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

But from our clinical work, many of us are familiar with people with dementia who experience sudden shocks to their health, think hip fracture, think hospitalization for pneumonia. And then when you see clinically patients coming into hospital, they’ll have, you know, they’ll be admitted for aspiration pneumonia.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

One in 10 people with newly diagnosed HIV is an older adult. And when she was here, she co founded the Golden Compass Clinic at San Francisco General Hospital for older adults living with HIV. So it felt like it was being part of this huge kind of change in the whole environment and the whole experience of that community.

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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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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Alex 00:06 We are delighted to welcome back Areej El-Jawahri, who’s an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who specializes in blood cancers. So this is about two and a half, three years out from leukemia diagnosis. Alex 00:03 This is Alex Smith. Eric 00:04 And Alex, who do we have with us today? Don, welcome to GeriPal.

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

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The way we were treating him with dementia in the hospital, the way we talked about him, that he’s not there. With your journey, with your dad’s journey- Diane: They could have diagnosed him earlier. They could have diagnosed him earlier. Malaz: … to restrain them in the hospital. And I was terrified.

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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. First time on the GeriPal podcast, Liz Lilley, who’s a surgeon and faculty in surgery at the Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Liz 00:32 Thanks.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

Rob Kennedy mingled with about a dozen other people in a community space in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania. Kennedy comes to this memory cafe twice a month since being diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease in his late 50s. have been diagnosed with some form of dementia. .” I get to meet them.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Hospitals are hazardous places for older adults. These hazards include delirium, malnutrition, falls, infections, and hospital associated disability (which about ⅓ of older adults get during a hospital stay). 2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. Annals of Int Med.

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PEMBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of skin and soft tissue infections: 2014 update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. So how do you make the diagnosis? If you think that there’s an abscess, you can diagnose it clinically by a localized area of induration or fluctuance or use an ultrasound.

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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. These human rights violations are perpetuated in first-world brand-name hospitals. I’m being real.

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PEMBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Pertussis infection in infants and children: Clinical features and diagnosis. In this episode, we’ll go over clinical presentation, diagnosis management, infection control, and post exposure protocols. Greater than 50 percent of kids under 12 months of age with pertussis could require hospitalization.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Testing and outreach for HIV faltered in the South , a region that accounts for more than half of all HIV diagnoses. And it would end a strategic initiative to expand HIV services in minority communities, and another to support the mental health of people of color with HIV or at risk of infection. Although churches in the U.S.

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