GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

We also talk about the importance of a proactive approach to involving speech-language pathologists in the care of individuals early on with neurodegenerative diseases like dementia and ALS. So as you mentioned, dementia, there’s some research that show about 86% or 93% of those individuals will get that. Raele: Yes, of course.

IT 124

IT Hospital Patient-Centered Individual 124

GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

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. So transmission of other drug resistant organisms and C difficile to other patients in the hospital reduces if you control. Diff rates, for example at a unit level.

Complication 97

Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 97

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

But oftentimes, a therapist has deeper training and really history of trauma and specific diagnoses, versus a coach may be a little bit more future-focused and really works with people, regardless of whether they’re having any diagnosable challenge at the moment. Eric: Vicky, anything you’d add to that? Beth: Yeah.

Board-Certified 110

Board-Certified IT Primary Care Referral 110

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We talk about what is heart failure, particularly HFpEF, how we treat it (including the use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2’s), and how we should apply guidelines to individual patients, especially those with multimorbidity who are taking a lot of other medications. Yes, over diagnosed in older adults are about right.

Primary Care 113

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Palliative care, in contrast, saw explosive growth in US hospitals. Should eligibility and access be determined by clinician referral? If we move away from clinician referrals as the means by which people get access, how do we keep the clinicians engaged, and not enraged? I do tend to focus in the hospital setting.

Consulting 99

Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis Referral 99

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. Jessie: Yes. Jessie: Exactly. Eric: Which brings us to an article.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Essentially we’re testing the early integrated palliative care model, which is monthly visits with a specialty trained palliative care physician or advanced practice provider for patients who are diagnosed with advanced non small cell lung cancer. We would make referrals to psycho oncology. Lynn 37:39 I was in the hospital.

Telehealth 105

Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105