GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

And so in that context, knowing that there was going to be some evolution of policy in this area, that’s how I got involved consulting with members, trying to understand the situation better, that type of thing. Alex: Self-administer and psychiatric illness is not considered a qualifying diagnosis. Eric: Yeah. Eric: Yeah.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

And so there’s one study that used Medicare beneficiary data, and when they look at diagnoses for transgender men and women compared to cisgender men and women, we see around one in five have a diagnosis of dementia in the medical record for the transgender community compared to around, like, 1 in 7, 1 in 8 versus gender people.

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Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 81

GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

I actually do some consulting work with a company called the Farmstand that’s based in a community called the Villages in Florida. I mean, I think, you know, people talk about withdrawal syndrome and it is an official DSM for diagnosis, but I’m not sure it’s. Aren’t they asking you, what are you doing, mom?

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Medical IT Patient-Centered Healthcare 98

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Our field really lacks specificity in the terms that we use, and I think we really don’t know how chronic cancer pain, let’s say, a few years out from that initial diagnosis differs from, let’s say, chronic low back pain. I think- Eric: I was going to say that. Katie: Yeah. Jessie: Right. Should they?

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. It’s like a long, I don’t know, almost like a quarter-mile centipede with legs, and the legs are the housing units, the medical units, inpatient mental health.

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Family Families IT Community 132

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Alex 10:53 Yeah, or like palliative care if they get a consult for whatever reason, but not trn consult, like standardized, you know, randomized to palliative care versus whatever they’re doing before. If they get palliative care consult, they get one. Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And it was really good for my mental and physical… Physical health, obviously, but mental health really. That this is iterative from diagnosis to end-of-life, right? And I think a lot of times when we get consulted, we’re asked for the outcome, right? Juliet: Sure. We want to get the DNR, right?

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 98