GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

So, the question becomes, what, if anything, should we do differently in the primary care setting to diagnose the disease? We address the following questions with Nate: Has anything changed for the primary care doctor when diagnosing Alzheimers? How should we screen for cognitive impairment? Does a good history matter anymore?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

My favorite line from Emily’s paper: “Geriatric assent has not been widely adopted in clinical care, but bioethicists should advocate for this, as adoption of partial-involvement strategies can prolong the period in which individuals are (appropriately) engaged in decisions about their health care.” I’m not going to talk about finances.

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Families Family Patient-Centered IT 98

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

James: Yeah, so I guess just to start… I mean, prognosis in general is kind of a term for predicted course of disease, and I think people commonly use it to refer to an individual’s life expectancy or how long the person has to live. I think this is a really difficult topic to talk about with patients.

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Eric 12:03 I’m interested in that because I hear a lot about people losing their, like, one way, like people get health issue and then lose all their finances, especially in the U.S. Those are all things that could dramatically be a major health shock for an individual. So let’s put a pin in that. Alex 14:28 Yeah, yeah.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

How is it financed and what comes next? I think Bruce can speak to that, I think, 30-year gap in finances. The other way to think about who’s eligible… I talked about coming at this from a diagnosis point of view, people with certain conditions that you need to be hospitalized for. Yeah, Eric: Yeah.

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Physicians News Digest

APRIL 3, 2025

But neither Kennedy nor President Donald Trump have explained why individual agencies such as AHRQ were targeted for cuts or indicated whether any of their work would continue. Medical errors caused by missed diagnoses, drug errors, hospital infections, and other factors kill and maim tens of thousands of Americans each year.

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