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Understanding Heat Stroke: Symptoms and Essential Solutions

Doctor On Demand

Often stemming from extended exposure to high temperatures compounded by inadequate hydration, this condition is a concern for everyone, but especially for the elderly, young children, and individuals with certain health conditions. This heightened temperature can precipitate complications affecting vital organs like the brain and heart.

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Have Job-Based Health Coverage at 65? You May Still Want To Sign Up for Medicare

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When Alyne Diamond fell off a horse in August 2023 and broke her back, her employer-based health plan through UnitedHealthcare covered her emergency care in Aspen, Colorado. It also covered related pain management and physical therapy after she returned home to New York City. The bills totaled more than $100,000.

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

GeriPal

What should we use to screen individuals? I think that’s not hard to accept this conclusion, that if you know your patient, which is what you get with high continuity, you know your patient, you’re going to pick up on problems that they have before they get so bad that they end up in the emergency room or the hospital.

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When to Go to Urgent Care for a Sore Throat: How Can Urgent Care Help?

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When to go to the ER for a sore throat Go to the emergency room (ER) if your sore throat causes any difficulty swallowing or breathing. Infections or allergic reactions can block your airway and lead to life-threatening complications. Weakened immune systems increase the risk of complications — seek care sooner.

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Palliative Care in Liver Disease: A Podcast with Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson

GeriPal

I’ve seen patients post transplant when they start having complications. They are complicated. They’re complicated from a symptom standpoint. And so I honestly think it has to do with how complex the diseases and the complications that come from it. Can you come and be in our clinic once a week?

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

Tom: So we did this study because patients who go through the stem cell transplant process face a lot of misery in terms of physical symptoms, psychological distress, anxiety, depression, and even a risk of PTSD afterwards, sort of like a medical trauma, you might think of it. Emergency rooms. Why did you do this study, Tom?

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

So it’s a five component scale and it includes slow gate speed, weak and grip strength, exhaustion, unintentional weight loss, and low physical activity, which I really like thinking about those components. Lauren: Although again, still thinking about what that means for an individual older adult is really important.