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. So we’re in the same cancer group.

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GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

So if you haven’t been to this event, there is a literature review where we. 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. Alex, you’ve probably penned about 50 songs, which is also amazing.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

So GFR was adjusted based on race, which it probably did lead to African-American patients being diagnosed with chronic kidney disease later in their disease trajectory, as compared to others. I probably should have said GFR. Eric: Yes. I just choose GFR. Ramona: Is a perfect example of that.

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Those disruptive events or shocks often portend a major decline in function from which people with dementia never fully recover. Today we talk about disruptive events, or health and wealth shocks. So thought it related to our theme of disruptive events about different ways in which you may experience an early demise.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

So if you have say two similar patients who go to the ICU with COPD, both are an event, one lives for 27 days and dies in the ICU, the other one gets a palliative care consult and dies four days from hospital admission. In reality, that is a huge cost saving for the hospital. .”

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Someone who’s healthy in their 60s and just got diagnosed with diabetes, yeah, they might benefit, if they have a very long life expectancy, to prevent that decline in kidney function. Those have a very, very long time horizon. I don’t need to get into much of the details. So the model was pretty good compared to previous ones.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 8, 2024

Whereas in cultures that practice cremation properly, it’s a public event full of ceremony and ritual and expectation. Not an event planner, kind of a ritual planner, is that you’re the guide for the family, who often is dealing with this for the first time. And the operative word here is just cremated or just buried.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

They had triple diagnoses, often life threatening illness, but also mental illness and usually some kind of addiction. And what’s important about this for your listeners is that we begin to see that dying is not just a medical event, and we need to stop treating it as if it were just that.

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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. Eric 16:38 So everybody was diagnosed with an advanced lung cancer sometime in the last twelve weeks and then they were randomized. You sort of had a month after all of those events. Jennifer 27:11 Yes.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. But, for a majority, it’s a first time event. It’s a healthcare crisis, it’s lack of tenant protections, death of a spouse. To Susan’s point.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 1, 2023

I guess I’m just sticking to the position that I would like someday to be able to diagnose Alzheimer’s as well as Lewy body disease, et cetera before someone has disabling impairments. Because those experiments show that the actor being targeted, lipids for example, is part of the causal pathway to an undesired event.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

So we really wondered, you know, in modern palliative care practice, where we’re seeing patients a lot farther upstream than we used to, and we’re seeing patients with a wider range of diagnoses, we wanted to update, sort of. What are the prognoses associated with various PPS scores? Eric 07:31 Yeah, and I can imagine, I.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Redwing: When you’re diagnosed with cancer, the first thing you think about is when you’re going to die. The post Poetry & Palliative Care: Podcast with Mike Rabow and Redwing Keyssar appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Why not live as long as possible?

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GeriPal

JULY 16, 2024

Eric Widera reminds us of the history of the Goldwater Act created by the American Psychological Association in the 1960s which states that psychiatrists should refrain from diagnosing public figures, and the American Medical Association code of ethics which likewise discourages armchair diagnosis (rule established in 2017). Sorry, Ken.

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