GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

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. It can’t be diagnosed and adios.

Screening 120

Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 120

GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

And so to develop that equation, they use the cohort of individuals and their data, their blood samples, creatine and other physical attributes. Slightly a shift in more patients diagnosed with kidney disease or now their GFR looks lower so now there’s different concerns regarding prescribing medications.

Complication 97

Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 97

Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

When assessing a fever, we doctors employ a systematic approach to ensure accurate diagnosis and effective management. One of the primary tools used in diagnosing fever is the thermometer, an instrument that measures body temperature. What are the Management and Treatment Options in a case of fever?

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Diagnosis Management Illness Diagnose 130

Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

It's the first point of contact for all your medical needs, from routine check-ups to managing chronic conditions. Patients who have a trusted primary care doctor are more likely to follow medical advice, manage their chronic conditions effectively, and ultimately enjoy better health outcomes. Why is it called a clinic?

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Clinic Primary Care Doctor Primary Care Chronic Condition 52

GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

There are a lot of old myths out there about managing urinary tract symptoms and UTI’s in older adults. Then we chat with Scott Bauer, internist and researcher at UCSF, about how to assess and manage lower urinary tract symptoms in men. 50 to 70% of people who are diagnosed with UTIs probably don’t have a UTI.

Management 123

Management IT Medical Patient-Centered 123

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

I have so many questions, and I promise we’re going to get to the management of anxiety and serious illness. So it tends to be future oriented and tends to show up as a physical sensation in our body. But it’s this physical sensation that comes along with these ideations. Brianna 00:41 Thanks. Great to be here.

Illness 130

Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 130

Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed. In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Or somebody who has other physical cognitive problems at any age. 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? Those things do just accumulate with age. Is this our role? Emmy: Yeah.

Families 102

Families IT Family Diagnosis 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? Was it sodium hf?

Primary Care 114

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 114

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A lot of those symptoms of depression can also be attributed to different kinds of physical symptoms. Because often what we hear from patients, “I do a lot of pain management research,” but mood comes up in that a lot, is that, “Oh, I don’t want to talk to my doctor about this. I’m dying.”

Mental Health 123

Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 123

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

However, lack of physical presence may make this contender struggle to land the emotional support punch that is at the very heart of palliative care. And I would say we weren’t doing training on symptom management, for example. And then there was a lot of stuff on coping and symptom management. Who will emerge victorious?

Telehealth 106

Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 106

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

So, the question becomes, what, if anything, should we do differently in the primary care setting to diagnose the disease? On todays podcast, weve invited Nathaniel Chin back to the GeriPal podcast to talk about what primary care needs to manage this new world of Alzheimers disease effectively. Does a good history matter anymore?

Primary Care 97

Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 97

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families. They supported patients, they gave them a holding environment, they did symptom management, yada, yada, yada, like all the things we know palliative care clinicians do.

Illness 111

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 111

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Alex 00:20 Today we’re delighted and honored to welcome Eduardo Bruera, who is one of the biggest symptom management gurus, if not the biggest symptom management guru in palliative medicine. We have an epidemic of BMI and therefore never use the way the patient looks like to diagnose cachexia. Who do we have with us today?

Illness 134

Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 134

GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

And so to develop that equation, they use the cohort of individuals and their data, their blood samples, creatine and other physical attributes. Slightly a shift in more patients diagnosed with kidney disease or now their GFR looks lower so now there’s different concerns regarding prescribing medications.

Complication 52

Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

And this case has been worked out the best in terms of the artificial intelligence suggesting diagnoses the clinician may have missed. I actually like reading books and the physical,” and what the internet 2.0 We should build models to identify symptoms, to do proactive symptom management, and AI can totally do that.

IT 100

IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 100

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Gender expression is your physical outward manifestation of how you express your gender identity. One is to seek additional training because the standards of care from wpath, which literally outlines how you would manage hormones, is there. And of note, these concepts are not mutually exclusive.

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Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 82

GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

Ken 12:14 I’ll remind you, Nancy, that this is an honor for companies that manage to make lots of money despite having a product that’s worthless or doesn’t. And this complete lack of attention to the real needs of persons with dementia is really kind of a shameful part of US healthcare. And very frail.

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IT Hospital Screening Patients 65

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. Something about it wasn’t necessarily right in terms of her desire to be always with us.

IT 100

IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 100

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

You get me with one-finger-chords on the guitar if you’re watching on YouTube (best I could manage). The first one is I would want the general public and healthcare professionals to really understand actually what natural dying and death look like. This physician had never discussed my suffering at all.

Illness 144

Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Stop thinking the physical exam or the differential diagnose, whatever, and just be there. I wasn’t able to really fully recover from that, from a relational standpoint, and as best I could do symptom management along the way. It’s going to feel like they’re in free fall. Stop being the expert.

Illness 102

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 102

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that. We published a nice piece, I think it was in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. We examine, we diagnose, we fix. To diagnose, to come up with a formulation, to be able to really get hold of the cause of this individual suffering.

Patient-Centered 98

Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Managing anger is hard, it’s really hard. And yet we don’t ever talk about how to manage it. And also the whole potential psychiatric diagnoses. The post The Angry Patient: A podcast with Dani Chammas and Keri Brenner appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

Patients 110

Patients IT Families Family 110

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. It’s not just about physical symptom management.

Patient-Centered 120

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 120

GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

Like yourself, when I was a resident, and pain has been shaped in our mind as being a purely physical sensation, especially on the clinical side, where this idea that pain is complex and that pain is as much an emotion as much as physical sensation is not really something we are trained to do. Haider: That was a great story.

Patient-Centered 106

Patient-Centered Physicals IT Patients 106

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

It sits at the intersection of emotion, interpersonal, physical, psychological, cultural. A lot of people, and we have some data to say that you might have distress, but sex is not one of the reasons for your distress when you’re first diagnosed. You ask a question, like, how about pain, about nausea? You can’t even.

Illness 131

Illness IT Physicals Patients 131

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

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Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 80

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

So how physically active the patient is, how much time they spend awake, how much they’re eating, how much care they need, that type of thing. I don’t know how our patients manage that. Alex 05:48 I guess we didn’t do hospice specifically. Eric 05:50 Yeah. What’s in it again? It’s a measure of function.

Families 108

Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 108

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. I didn’t know how to manage it. With your journey, with your dad’s journey- Diane: They could have diagnosed him earlier.

Patient-Centered 126

Patient-Centered IT Families Family 126

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

You can broaden the scope of diagnoses. By the year 2000, everyone will be in a Medicare managed care plan.” Just think about something like a nurse visit, a nursing visit, or a physical therapy visit. Every time we’d make a visit, he would talk about being physically restrained. He did not become delirious.

Hospital 115

Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115