GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

What should we use to screen individuals? And so certainly from a family’s perspective, a family caregiver perspective, the last thing we want to have when it comes to good dementia care is a diagnose and audio scenario, or in this case, some type of screening result, and then we’ll see you again in six months.

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Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 119

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Just today (June 17th) as we record this podcast: Ezra Klein released a wonderful interview with Sarah McBride , the first openly transgender member of congress A judge ruled that cuts to NIH grants focused on minority groups, including transgender people, were illegal and ordered the government to restore funding. And we also need it.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

For the policy buffs and policy newbies out there, we hope this podcast is an essential primer to government in action. And so there was a report in 2009 by the Institute of Medicine saying that we need to equip all of these individuals in caring for older person in an evidence based manner. We talk about: . Devika: That’s right.

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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

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. I think some of that is from some of my thinking about maybe what I can potentially think about with the individual to support them. In fact from the time he was diagnosed, he passed away within two and a half weeks.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

I think some individuals thought there was cherry-picking of stories that made it seem like hospice is this bad thing, that it’s taking advantage of vulnerable individuals and it didn’t talk enough about the good things that hospice does. On the other side, there’s another group that thinks, you know what?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

So it started off for individuals with a terminal illness. And so now for March, 2024, the government still has said they’re planning to expand it for mental illness conditions. All of the evidence shows that for mental illnesses in individual cases of mental illness, we cannot make those predictions. Eric: Thank you Bill.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

And the government can do something about that?!? Those are all things that could dramatically be a major health shock for an individual. May not even know that the patient has dementia, or they might think that, but it’s not been diagnosed. Eric 42:13 What do you want the government to do? Alex 14:28 Yeah, yeah.

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Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 93