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Problem Representation

The Clinical Problem Solvers

His past medical history is significant for hypertension and diabetes mellitus. Final PR: “A middle-age male with HTN, diabetes, and recent travel to Brazil presenting with acute headache, myalgia, fever, and rash and found to have leukopenia, lymphopenia, and thrombocytopenia. He lives with his wife and 2 cats.

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Prevention of Dementia: Kristine Yaffe

GeriPal

Then I went to medical school and I thought, “Well, should I go into psych? A lot of these are more vascular risk factors: hypertension, certainly; diabetes; obesity. Certainly education, quality of education is extremely important. Some of them, like education, definitely social determinants of health.

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STATEMENT RELEASE: Reproductive Health Coalition Statement on Impact of Medicaid Cuts

Doctors for America

The provision of Medicaid has demonstrated widespread positive impacts on health outcomes, which in turn pave the way for improved economic and educational attainment and better quality of life. ¹ Medicaid allows low income women to address medical conditions prior to pregnancy, improving outcomes.

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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

GeriPal

Summary Transcript CME Summary When treating heart failure, how do we distinguish between the expanding list of medications recommended for “Guideline Directed Medical Therapy” (GDMT) and what might be considered runaway polypharmacy? He’s a medical director of H ebrew S enior L ife outpatient clinic at Newbridge.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

These individuals may become unrepresented, meaning they lack the capacity to make a specific medical decision, do not have an advance directive for that decision, and do not have a surrogate to help. We’re going to be talking about the American Geriatric Society position statement on making medical treatment decisions.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

Lastly, we discuss Katie’s paper on substance use disorder in an aging population and how one can incorporate the 5 Ms (ie, matters most, medications, mind, mobility, and multicomplexity) into a framework for age-friendly care for older adults with substance use disorder. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Who do we have with us today?

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On Racism & Ageism: Ramona Rhodes, Sharon Brangman, Tim Farrell, and Nancy Lundebjerg

GeriPal

Alex: And we are delighted to welcome Sharon Brangman, who is a geriatrician and chair of the Department of Geriatrics at Upstate Medical University. It can influence education systems. Then, of course, that falls into medical rules. No need for me to get rid of that pesky J in my name. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast Sharon.

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