GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

And so, unfortunately, I think for a while, this condition, for many people, isn’t diagnosed until you end up seeing a cardiologist or a heart failure doctor who’s really honed in on this to say, actually, this is a heart failure syndrome. Is your impression that HFpEFde is under diagnosed in older adults? Eric 14:10 Yeah.

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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? So I get all the referrals from my great colleagues in primary care.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, for example, everyone who was diagnosed with an advanced or metastatic lung cancer had a prognosis on the order of months. And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. Stupid theory.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Administration on Aging connecting you to services for older adults and their families California’s Master Plan for Aging New York’s Master Plan for Aging Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

And so this is our way of supporting non English speaking families in advanced care planning. But most people with dementia are initially diagnosed and medically managed in primary care, and they really desire clinicians to initiate these conversations but there are a number of really important barriers for these conversations taking place.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

And that really is what prompted me to get certified as a sexual education provider. A lot of people, and we have some data to say that you might have distress, but sex is not one of the reasons for your distress when you’re first diagnosed. And then I subsequently entail, yeah, it was interesting. I learned nothing.

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PEMBlog

MAY 9, 2024

Family history of febrile seizures. And let’s be honest, the term simple sort of undersells how scary this is for families. This is an important thing that we talk to families about. And so briefly, let’s talk about that neurology referral and follow up. A recent immunization. Prenatal exposure to nicotine.

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