GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

IT 121

IT Patient-Centered Patients Clinic 121

GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

Certainly education, quality of education is extremely important. Some of them, like education, definitely social determinants of health. Like, education, is it that it prevents you from getting Alzheimer’s disease, or does it just give you more reserve so Alzheimer’s peeks out later?

Physicals 86

Physicals IT Hypertension Education 86

GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Judy Long, MDiv, BCC , palliative care chaplain and educator at UCSF and caregiver. At the end of the program, he was walking down the hall, you probably don’t remember this, but a woman I know who you had diagnosed with some type of Alzheimer’s went running after him down the hall. I think Ab sees that a lot.

Community 102

Community IT Individual Patient-Centered 102

GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

And they should be forced by doing research, followed by translating research into practice and continued education of a wide variety of individuals to then care for our aging population. So people at kind of those extremes where I would potentially be really changing their diagnoses. Devika: That’s right.

Complication 97

Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 97

The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Their success is understandable : they offer a fast and easy method to check any skin conditions, typically for a fraction of the cost of a traditional healthcare appointment. Self-surveillance solutions, disease guides, educational apps as well as telehealth platforms appeared naturally in dermatology in the past decade.

Patients 98

Patients Healthcare Board-Certified Telemedicine 98

GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

all of whom focus their efforts on educating the general public about living and dying with a serious illness. Well, I think it was from a place of serious frustration that Hsien and I both felt in our careers that we had spent decades between us trying to change the healthcare system. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

Education 128

Education IT Illness Healthcare 128

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Illness 130

Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 130

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Eric: But before we jump into talking to your patients about driving retirement cessation, let’s talk about what is the role of the healthcare professional in this at all? Certainly my bias is that healthcare professionals really do have a role in this discussion. And what should we be doing as far as assessment?

Families 102

Families IT Family Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Who do we have with us today? Jessie: Yes. Devon: Yes.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 137

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Alex 00:41 And we’re delighted to welcome Noelle Marie Javier, who goes by “she” “her” and is a geriatrician and palliative care doc professor, newly minted – c ongratulations – And a clinician educator at Mount Sinai in New York City. Noelle Marie, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Noelle Marie 00:57 Hi, everyone.

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Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 82

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Again, it happened because the dean of the medical school at that time said, “We were teaching interprofessional education and we were quite successful with it and we’ve been doing it for years.” It’s used a lot in the education world. And then my mom was diagnosed with lung cancer and she was treated there.

IT 102

IT Families Family Clinic 102

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?

Primary Care 114

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 114

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? But these tests were never designed to diagnose. Does a good history matter anymore?

Primary Care 97

Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 97

GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

And we’ve been diagnosing it at Penn. I think the other issue as geriatricians and we need to educate our patients about is now you’re not on one, but six months later on this drug, you go on one. There’s a lot of stops along the way for education. Speaking to what Jason was talking about, education.

Patient-Centered 98

Patient-Centered IT Clinic Patients 98

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Mental Health 123

Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 123

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Epps, all that education, everything you gave me was good. I’m concerned about how can I get my dad diagnosed or get this proper care.” Fayron: One of the key statistics I say is, “By 2030, nearly 40% of individuals that would be diagnosed with dementia would be Black or Latino.” Yeah, exactly.

Community 129

Community Families Family IT 129

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

And so I began to think about the training that I had and that there was no mental health condition that was diagnosed. In fact from the time he was diagnosed, he passed away within two and a half weeks. The idea of listening with your ear, so E being educate, A, assess, and R, respond.

IT 100

IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 100

GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

And I remember being there and there was a patient who had seen inpatient and then subsequently outpatient who was so thankful in the weirdest in just this irrational way for having been diagnosed with liver cancer. Janet: It was this young man. He was in his mid twenties.

Illness 103

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 103

GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

And they should be forced by doing research, followed by translating research into practice and continued education of a wide variety of individuals to then care for our aging population. So people at kind of those extremes where I would potentially be really changing their diagnoses. Devika: That’s right.

Complication 52

Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

And I also worry about this push towards just amyloid blood testing so as a way of diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease without doing the workup that’s needed beforehand. Cause they all brought their own style and they all were educational in different ways. And I love how you span an article about the chair to educate.

IT 65

IT Hospital Screening Patients 65

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

She was resuscitated by EMS, but did not regain higher brain function, and was eventually diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state. I do think that some of the basics, like making sure that we’re updating the surrogate, which require us to find the surrogate is vital and something that we should educate folks about.

Families 113

Families Family Patient-Centered IT 113

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Illness 134

Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 134

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Consulting 122

Consulting Hospital Patient-Centered IT 122

GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

It’s baked into people’s belief systems, who ultimately make laws and make policies, and it can influence healthcare. It can influence education systems. So I think you can see how there’s a lot of work to do among multiple sectors within healthcare, including education and training. Eric: Yes.

IT 92

IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Patients 92

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Illness 144

Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

And as a resident, I just was drawn, similar to many oncology clinicians and fellows, to just be traumatic and difficult experience of patients with blood cancers during prolonged and intense hospitalizations, where they experience a lot of physical symptoms, emotional trauma related to the diagnoses. Alex: Okay. What year did it come out?

Illness 111

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 111

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

I think it’s just there is an opportunity and if we can educate on that opportunity and how to push past that initial no, that’s what we’d love to do more of. Eric: Lynn or Anne? Lynn: I was just going to say, I think it felt really, first of all, I’ll add to the list of the impact, and this could be the least of it.

Families 98

Families Family Patient-Centered IT 98

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

So let’s say a patient who has lung cancer, relatively newly diagnosed, has a long history of substance use disorder, had been taking methadone as an outpatient, and now has this pain. You know the case. Eric 31:10 Okay, do the case. Alex 31:10 Do the case. Because we just talked about methadone. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) .

Patients 74

Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 74

GeriPal

JUNE 23, 2022

If you know that there’s a group that you don’t treat even after they’re diagnosed, it causes anxiety, but you’re not causing them harms from treatment. So I’m actually interested in also trying to help women who’ve been diagnosed figure out what to do too. Meanwhile, there is risk to the procedure.

Screening 100

Screening PCP PCP IT 100

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

Working with Abe Brody at NYU to do a randomized control trial of an intervention for education, for psychotropic use in end stage dementia patients. And even up to a year out across diagnoses, every diagnoses including neurodegenerative diseases, costs less for those enrolled in hospice compared to not. Overall it was 3.1%

IT 115

IT Provider Patients Families 115

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

I can name probably 10 organizations across the United States where you can get education on being an end-of-life doula and they’re all slightly different. Our folks all die of congestive heart failure and dementia, even oncology diagnoses with new immunotherapies like the old days. I’m aging myself a little bit.

Provider 119

Provider Illness IT Healthcare 119

GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

They had triple diagnoses, often life threatening illness, but also mental illness and usually some kind of addiction. It’s put its emphasis much more on educational work, which is fantastic. We didn’t honestly have much more of a plan than that. So they were tough and diverse clientele to work with.

IT 123

IT Patient-Centered Patients Relationship 123

GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

The results were that the chat bots got the diagnoses right and had an escalation strategy that was better than the doctors, as judged by blinded specialists reading the transcripts. You and I would listen to a suggested list of diagnoses and say, “That’s a reasonable idea. They had no idea. That’s a reasonable idea.

IT 140

IT Electronics Patients Healthcare 140

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. Eric 16:38 So everybody was diagnosed with an advanced lung cancer sometime in the last twelve weeks and then they were randomized. So it even changed over the course of the study.

Patient-Centered 120

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 120

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

May not even know that the patient has dementia, or they might think that, but it’s not been diagnosed. The post Health and Wealth Shocks: Lauren Hunt, Rebecca Rodin, Tsai-Chin Cho appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Alex 24:38 That’s terrific.

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Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 63

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

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. There’s also education that goes with it, educating, like, what does that mean?

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Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 80

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

It could be in housing, it could be a standalone senior center, home delivered meals, nutrition counseling and nutrition education done by registered dieticians. I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. To Susan’s point.

Community 89

Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89