GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

I’d been working with persons who had diabetes and also caregivers and so forth, trying to go at the direction and realize as I look more and more at hearing loss, that it was totally unrecognized in clinical practice. And he liked some of what I was doing, which was really on diabetes and hearing loss.

IT 102

IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

And, you know, I really leaned in from my perspective as a primary care geriatrician to hearing from what my patients and their family caregivers are asking me for and asking me about, and they’re asking me about how they can prepare. And that family was not necessarily a trusted network. Like I could do that in my sleep.

Community 95

Community IT Patient-Centered Primary Care 95

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

He was describing his, like, 87 year old grandma who was placed on a low salt diabetic diet. So I have a two and a half year old, and during my last pregnancy, I had gestational diabetes. If they’re frail, if they’re falling, if they have cognitive impairment, they’re at higher risk of adverse drug events.

Primary Care 113

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

And the truth is we don’t want, I don’t want any patient or family to perceive that when Brera goes to see me, there’s a second interest, a second gain. Alex 24:58 I’m so glad you mentioned the family. I’m going to go tonight for dinner with the rest of the family. There’s something.

Illness 133

Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 133

GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

And again, that can create a food desert, which can create health issues for patients and their families, so that’s an example of structural racism, but again, it’s baked into laws. It’s baked into people’s belief systems, who ultimately make laws and make policies, and it can influence healthcare.

IT 91

IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Patients 91

GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

And I think that’s what’s important for families to know because everyone wants to stop this disease and roll back the clock to make their loved one better. But all of this has to be understood by the patient and the families and so that they’re comfortable of that. Remember, family member. It’s coherent.

Patient-Centered 98

Patient-Centered IT Clinic Patients 98

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

So if you can think about certain decisions like continuing to screen for certain cancers like colon cancer or breast cancer, or how strict you should control diabetes or blood pressures. So we wanted to create a model that’s going to reflect that sort of risk and what it also means for their families and financial decisions.

IT 95

IT Clinic Screening Patients 95