GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

But we know that 30% of all decedents who are Medicare beneficiaries either die from dementia or have an existing diagnosis of dementia, which is something we talk about quite often, Joel and I. Fifty percent have a diagnosis in their record of decedents have dementia. Joel: Yeah. Samir: Yeah.

Patient-Centered 101

Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

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 ). . Why did you do this?

IT 95

IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

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.

Illness 93

Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 93

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.

Community 89

Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease. And the entire community of palliative care said yes, not a palliative care study. Additionally, in case patients didn’t step up, we did have sort of events where they were scheduled to see palliative care. You sort of had a month after all of those events.

Patient-Centered 119

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

We would drill down on the tenth differential diagnosis of medium vessel vasculitis, and then we would discharge them back out to the streets. Why was I spending all this time figuring out the detailed differential diagnosis of these obscure diseases when we weren’t actually attending to what people really needed? Yeah, for sure.

Mental Health 123

Mental Health IT Community Individual 123

GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Mike Rabow shares his award winning poem about coming out to the world about his diagnosis with multiple sclerosis. . 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. Alex: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Patient-Centered 93

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. It’s not just in the next couple weeks or months. James 26:49 Exactly.

Families 106

Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 106