Rao Doctor

MAY 25, 2025

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

I’m a dementia specialist, and so what I was experiencing was that many people were coming to see me to get a diagnosis of a very straightforward case of mild Alzheimer’s or moderate Alzheimer’s disease, whose doctors had told them there was nothing wrong with them or that their memory was better than my own, says the doctor.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

Eric: And swallowing is complicated, right? Eric: I also wonder, is it just the utilization review standpoint? Are there things that we can do to prevent the complication of aspiration, which we most fear, aspiration pneumonia? Eric: Because you need saliva to swallow, right? Nicole: Yes. Raele: Very helpful if you do, yeah.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

By diagnosis? And that’s where things like diagnosis triggers, if you will, prognostic triggers, and then the ideal need-based triggers. Eric: Our outpatient service does have guides around diagnosis and prognosis. That gets really complicated as well. Kate: A diagnosis. Is that appropriate at diagnosis?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Gretchen Schwarze like surgery, four things, live longer, feel better, be more functional, make a diagnosis. Eric: That’s a complicated form then. What I’d really like to see is that when POLST is utilized, it’s utilized correctly. What they want is things that are important to them, maybe live longer.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. And then from a dementia and multiple different diagnoses, how much should hospice look the same for everyone, or tailored to the patient or the diagnosis that we’re dealing with? I threw out a lot.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

I thought that was an interesting take on doing this, because a mother-daughter relationship can be complicated, can be wonderful, and it’s hard to navigate when you lose your mother. Well, I’d agree, John, for palliative care ideally starts around the time of diagnosis. Alex: That is not around the time of diagnosis.

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