GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Joe 18:38 Yeah, you know, it’s interesting, Soo, I’m doing a county by county visit here in Minnesota where I actually give a presentation on the basics of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. We talk about diagnosis, et cetera, but it’s almost more of a community conversation. I’m in primary care.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Eric: Yeah, I love just creating the community of people who are passionate about that. How do we train primary care doctors to do geriatrics? “You’ll not be the richest doctor, but you will be the most satisfied.” “You’ll not be the richest doctor, but you will be the most satisfied.”

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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. It’s like breaking bad news in palliative care. Certainly my bias is that healthcare professionals really do have a role in this discussion.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

So we take that science and we apply it to something that’s very messy and chaotic, like a human being or a community or a population. I think it started off from a need, a hunger in the community. And then as it grew, I just was viewing the entire enterprise as a love letter to health care. Emily 06:27 Yes.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

In addition to being a palliative and hospice RN, she is the Executive Director for Goodwin Hospice , a large non-profit hospice that added end-of-life doula care to their services in collaboration with Jane and John’s doula organization, Present for You. That was really the theme song of how the community came together.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Nate also wrote a NEJM piece last year on Alzheimers Disease, Biomarkers, and mAbs What Does Primary Care Need? We address the following questions with Nate: Has anything changed for the primary care doctor when diagnosing Alzheimers? It’s not on the community’s end. Alex 26:33 Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

I worry, as a ex-primary care doctor, how much time I have. The challenge is not that people made decisions differently, and it was difficult, the challenge was the healthcare professionals who said, “This is not working for me. And I think we really need to be very careful about that.

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