GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

My favorite line from Emily’s paper: “Geriatric assent has not been widely adopted in clinical care, but bioethicists should advocate for this, as adoption of partial-involvement strategies can prolong the period in which individuals are (appropriately) engaged in decisions about their health care.” I’m not going to talk about finances.

Families 97

Families Family Patient-Centered IT 97

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 95

Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 95

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

James: Yeah, so I guess just to start… I mean, prognosis in general is kind of a term for predicted course of disease, and I think people commonly use it to refer to an individual’s life expectancy or how long the person has to live. I think this is a really difficult topic to talk about with patients.

IT 95

IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Eric 12:03 I’m interested in that because I hear a lot about people losing their, like, one way, like people get health issue and then lose all their finances, especially in the U.S. Those are all things that could dramatically be a major health shock for an individual. So let’s put a pin in that. Alex 14:28 Yeah, yeah.

Illness 93

Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

How is it financed and what comes next? I think Bruce can speak to that, I think, 30-year gap in finances. You can broaden the scope of diagnoses. But there’s heterogeneity, I think, in how to meet our patient’s needs, depending on the resources that a particular healthcare system has, and their patient needs.

Hospital 115

Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115

Physicians News Digest

APRIL 3, 2025

On April 1, the Trump administration slashed the organization that supported that research — the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, or AHRQ — and fired roughly half of its remaining employees as part of a perplexing reorganization of the federal Health and Human Services Department. What we’ve been doing isn’t working,” he said.

Patient-Centered 52

Patient-Centered Hospital Diagnose Medical 52