GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

So, the question becomes, what, if anything, should we do differently in the primary care setting to diagnose the disease? On todays podcast, weve invited Nathaniel Chin back to the GeriPal podcast to talk about what primary care needs to manage this new world of Alzheimers disease effectively. Great to be back.

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

Issues with sleep, like insomnia, does it lead towards a diagnosis of dementia, increase your risk, or is it that people with cognitive impairment, an early-on symptom is sleep disturbances and it’s more of a sign or symptom of early cognitive issues? We also worked a little bit with the primary care team certain of the risk factors.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

2) iDoc24 The award-winning dermatology service is present in more than 160 countries and is available in 7 languages. In the continent-sized country, approximately 11,000 skin care specialists are working, which means less than one dermatologist for 100,000 people. Cureskin aims to help alleviate the situation.

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

If you look in the diagnostical statistical manual, right, the sort of handbook for diagnoses, most of the diagnostic criteria are in some important ways kind of arbitrary, right? If they’ve said they had a traumatic experience receiving a diagnosis. I think when we start to think about where are we encountering pathology, right?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Alex 00:12 We have a guest host who has requested this episode, Matt Shuster, who’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc. And also I was in the HVMA primary care program. Eric 12:05 Any pearls on the diagnosis of HFpEF. Is your impression that HFpEFde is under diagnosed in older adults? Eric 12:21 Yeah.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Often when there’s a cognitive concern, it’s a family member that is calling saying, “I just want to make sure my mom should still be driving after this happened, or after this diagnosis.” It’s like breaking bad news in palliative care. Absolutely. No, I think it was just the arm.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

There is a lot to digest with these draft clinical guidelines but the big change from the 2018 guideline is moving Alzheimers to a biological diagnosis (biomarker evidence only) not just for a research framework but now from a clinical one. And we’ve been diagnosing it at Penn. And that could extend beyond 18 months.

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CDOCS

APRIL 11, 2025

The age of diagnosis of HPV squamous cell carcinoma starts in males and females at about 30 years old and peaks between 60-69 and then starts decreasing after that. With more than 13,000 new diagnoses of throat cancer each year in the US, the disease has surpassed cervical cancer as the most common cancer with HPV.</p>

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

You present your. When you have, when you exist simply for being you, and then on top of that you have HIV AIDS as a diagnosis or substance use or what have diabetes, all of these will accelerate your aging. So that’s how. Just how you. Your gender.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

What happened is we’re in the serious illness care business and so we were busy rolling out our serious illness conversations at Mass General and we were getting resistance, which we expected from oncology and primary care, but then we started getting resistance from the geriatricians. Brad: Yeah. It was a complete shock.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

In addition to being a palliative and hospice RN, she is the Executive Director for Goodwin Hospice , a large non-profit hospice that added end-of-life doula care to their services in collaboration with Jane and John’s doula organization, Present for You. Jane, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Jane: Thank you for having me. John: Yeah.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

As you know, our population is aging at a rapid speed and older, adult older persons is no longer cared for only by a geriatrician or a primary care physician. There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations. Devika: That’s right.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

One in 10 people with newly diagnosed HIV is an older adult. Our second guest, Meredith Greene, is a geriatrician and researcher who focuses on care of older adults living with HIV, in the US and Africa. And I also read that 1 out of 10 newly diagnosed HIV cases are in older adults. Is a new diagnosis of HIV.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Today we are delighted to welcome Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, and Danny Scerpella, who conducted a pragmatic trial of advance care planning (ACP) in primary care practices; and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who wrote an accompanying commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine. Jennifer, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Sydney 00:41 Thank you.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Areej 03:50 So at the state of the science, I was actually presenting a study that was focused on addressing sexual health concerns in transplant survivors, and I actually told the story of the state of the science for those of you who were there. So this is about two and a half, three years out from leukemia diagnosis.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. JAGS Hospital-at-Home Interventions vs In-Hospital Stay for Patients With Chronic Disease Who Present to the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. We had, since the late seventies, a home-based primary care program. Annals of Int Med.

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