GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Or somebody who has other physical cognitive problems at any age. And I’ve been to some presentations that use that same breaking bad news model for having these driving conversations, as are used in palliative care. Those things do just accumulate with age. That’s why we really think about it in the older population.

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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. Lynn 31:56 One little detail that stood out to me, which really rang true to real life, was that caregivers were actually less present during visits in the video visits. So look for that.

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GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

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. Ken 26:17 You presented that. Eric 29:27 And initially the one we presented was like, what happens to people when they come to the hospital?

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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? Alex 45:43 Okay.

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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?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A lot of those symptoms of depression can also be attributed to different kinds of physical symptoms. In many, many, many of these studies, they excluded people with severe mental health distress, so certain mental health diagnoses were exclusion criteria from a palliative care study. Eric: I love this. Fantastic place.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations. And so to develop that equation, they use the cohort of individuals and their data, their blood samples, creatine and other physical attributes. Devika: That’s right.

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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Gender expression is your physical outward manifestation of how you express your gender identity. You present your. The post Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Your gender.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

We have an epidemic of BMI and therefore never use the way the patient looks like to diagnose cachexia. So cachexia, I would put it involuntary weight loss is the number one way to diagnose it. But what I tell them is, keep yourself physically active. Keep yourself physically as active as possible. Is it just loss of.

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Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 134

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. No, I mean, I think I had the initial feeling or thought about this being present after I learned about it and were thoughtful with senior mentors about it. You just knew it? Thomas: Yeah, yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Dani and Kery present three steps for interacting with an angry patient: Look within: What is this anger bringing up in me? It’s just so interesting the myriad of ways that this can present in our behavior when we neglect to just look within. Dani: Yeah, so the way you presented was triggering to them. Keri: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

One thing I would like to add here is both Sonu and Leonie presented this as something that lacks boundaries. The first one is I would want the general public and healthcare professionals to really understand actually what natural dying and death look like. Eric: Bill. Bill: Yeah. Eric: Thank you Bill.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Well, it’s not just being present, though. Stop thinking the physical exam or the differential diagnose, whatever, and just be there. The post Avoiding the Uncanny Valley in Serious Illness Communication: Josh Briscoe appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 102

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

They look at the signs and symptoms, they do a physical exam, maybe some lab tests or some imaging. And if the doctors still come up with different diagnoses or perceptions of what’s happening with the patient and or treatment plans, that’s all on them. Try to really understand what’s happening. Thanks everybody.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that. I’m fully present. I mean, the fact is that intensive care, as you said, Alex, I mean we invoke it as a way of trying to, in a very intensive focused way, attend to people who are in physical, biologically in dire straits. I’m not distracted.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Areej 03:50 So at the state of the science, I was actually presenting a study that was focused on addressing sexual health concerns in transplant survivors, and I actually told the story of the state of the science for those of you who were there. It sits at the intersection of emotion, interpersonal, physical, psychological, cultural.

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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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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. So snaps to Ricky, but he presented this case to us of a person who had had a heart operation. Alex 05:48 I guess we didn’t do hospice specifically. Eric 05:50 Yeah. Liz 30:53 Yeah.

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Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 108

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Too many people do because it’s really hard to keep their loved ones at home for the cost, the enormous financial, mental and physical strain for the family. Eric: And looking back at that time, what do you think the healthcare system could have done to help with that? They could have diagnosed him earlier. Diane: Yeah.

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Patient-Centered IT Families Family 126

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

JAGS Hospital-at-Home Interventions vs In-Hospital Stay for Patients With Chronic Disease Who Present to the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. You can broaden the scope of diagnoses. In our larger studies, before the study that Tacara helped lead, we never required family members to be present, or do work.

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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).

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