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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

What hasn’t been shown, Eric, is that if you apply tools like this, clinical outcomes down the road are better for patients. They aren’t going to be better unless we have health systems that actually respond to detection of cognitive impairment with good care plans and follow through, as Joe was talking about.

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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

The following graph shows the striking difference in premature mortality between countries with weak or strong primary care: 2. More GPs = Higher Life Expectancy Did you know that people in areas with more GPs live longer ? million people in 2018), shows that the longer you know your GP, the better off you are.