GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) concluded back in 2000 that there is insufficient evidence to recommend for or against routine screening for dementia in older adults. If so, how do we screen and who do we screen? What should we use to screen individuals? Cognitive screening.

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Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 119

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

So what we found is up to 30% of people would call 911 again for a fall, and of those calls, some people became very high-utilizers and so they would call 911 over and over again. I think once someone becomes kind of a high-utilizer, it’s a slippery slope. I had no idea that people were calling 911 that much sometimes.

Community 115

Community Transportation IT PCP 115

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

If I remember correctly, I think the average was, people were screening positive for depression in this study. It used to be a much more complicated model. However, its main predictors are age, comorbidity, and healthcare utilization. Like, you can’t really improve good quality of life? David: Exactly. David: Right.

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Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And resource utilization was very low in all the groups. Eric 14:24 So it’s hard to improve resource utilization for these people where some of them didn’t sound like the sickest of people admitting them to the hospital, but all had some type of serious illness. So absolutely, it is complicated. It was not different.

Consulting 63

Consulting Community Patient-Centered Families 63

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that. Our early studies were looking at things like, desire for death, and syndromal depression, and screening for depression and anxiety, and will to live. That the wish to… Eric: Complicated. Harvey: Complicated.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And I think the advanced planning debate is really a question of, how do we help this very complicated situation? So one that the primary outcome was supposed to be documentation, which it improved documentation, it wasn’t powered to actually look at any utilization or hard outcomes. So I’m just going to share on my screen.

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