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Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary Diabetes is common. When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. And yet we’re also in a different place in diabetes monitoring and management. Goldilocks zone). This is Eric Widera.

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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

GeriPal

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. That can be incredibly informative. We’re doing this also through the inpatient portal because we were trying to get as much information in there as possible.

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Prevention of Dementia: Kristine Yaffe

GeriPal

A lot of these are more vascular risk factors: hypertension, certainly; diabetes; obesity. If you could wave a magic wand to change one thing: sleep, blood pressure control, eradicate diabetes, get everybody exercising, what do you think would have the most bang for the buck in terms of dementia reduction? Kristine: Can I say age?

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Finding the Right Clinic: A Guide to Quality Care

Plum Health

Navigating the healthcare system can be daunting, especially when you're unwell or caring for someone who is. This guide will help you understand the different types of clinics and services they offer, so you can make an informed decision about where to seek medical care. Frequently Asked Questions What is the definition of a clinic?

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Artificial Intelligence: Charlotta Lindvall, Matt DeCamp, Sei Lee

GeriPal

Charlotta: Yeah, I think it will be in reducing the need to spend so many hours on documentation and looking through the EHR for information. Now actually suggesting perhaps that you missed a diagnosis that you should have considered? The information there and you limit it in that way. Eric: Yeah. Eric: Please respond.

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

Doctor On Demand

In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals. due to chemotherapy, diabetes, or autoimmune disease)? chemotherapy or steroids). Do you have a weak immune system (e.g.,

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Managing Urinary Symptoms and UTI’s in Older Adults

GeriPal

We discuss with her how we should work-up and manage “urinary tract infections” (I’ve added air quotes to “UTI” in honor of Tom Finucane’s JAGS article titled “Urinary Tract Infection”—Requiem for a Heavyweight in which he advocated to put air quotes around the term UTI due to the ambiguity of the diagnosis.). I appreciate that information.