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How to Prepare for Your Preventive Care Visit

Mesa Family Physician

Review your family health history, particularly any new diagnoses among blood relatives since your last appointment. Many practices now offer electronic pre-registration that can be completed before your appointment. Many healthcare systems provide electronic access to this information through patient portals.

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Pragmatic Trial of ACP: Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson

GeriPal

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. Before the primary care visit. Danny 10:07 Yep, that was the goal.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

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. Older people don’t live in the Offices for the Aging. They touch every single system. I won’t even get into problem gambling.