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

AUGUST 8, 2024

You know, in other places, in most rural communities, the dead are laid out in their own beds, which is very often where they died. Whereas in cultures that practice cremation properly, it’s a public event full of ceremony and ritual and expectation. And the operative word here is just cremated or just buried. I won’t.

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IT Family Families Relationship 125

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Those disruptive events or shocks often portend a major decline in function from which people with dementia never fully recover. Today we talk about disruptive events, or health and wealth shocks. So thought it related to our theme of disruptive events about different ways in which you may experience an early demise.

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Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 63

GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

They had triple diagnoses, often life threatening illness, but also mental illness and usually some kind of addiction. And what’s important about this for your listeners is that we begin to see that dying is not just a medical event, and we need to stop treating it as if it were just that. Lingsheng 43:28 I did.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Relationship 123

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. Eric 16:38 So everybody was diagnosed with an advanced lung cancer sometime in the last twelve weeks and then they were randomized. You sort of had a month after all of those events. Jennifer 27:11 Yes.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 120

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

APRIL 21, 2022

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. The process of sharing that of literally of reading that poem in community has been amazing. Why not live as long as possible?

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Patient-Centered IT Community Illness 93

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. Someone’s function in the future can depend on, like, a crisis event, like a fall and a hip fracture. What are the prognoses associated with various PPS scores?

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Family Families Patient-Centered Patients 108