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Translating the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit into Messages and Materials to Improve Preventive Care In Older Adults. [Community based participatory research]

Annals of Family Medicine

The Annual Wellness Visit (AWV) is a Medicare benefit aimed at increasing preventive care and building a stronger patient-clinician relationship. However, uptake of the AWV in primary care has been low, and many patients are unaware of this free annual visit. Study Design and Analysis. Conclusions.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

These individuals may become unrepresented, meaning they lack the capacity to make a specific medical decision, do not have an advance directive for that decision, and do not have a surrogate to help. We’re going to be talking about the American Geriatric Society position statement on making medical treatment decisions.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

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. Because how that is approached can have lasting effects on relationships, unfortunately. “Do you guys do this?” Eric: Yeah. Eric: Yeah.

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