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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

GeriPal

Alex 00:12 We have a guest host who has requested this episode, Matt Shuster, who’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc. And also I was in the HVMA primary care program. Is your impression that HFpEFde is under diagnosed in older adults? Yes, over diagnosed in older adults are about right. Eric 12:21 Yeah.

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Managing Urinary Symptoms and UTI’s in Older Adults

GeriPal

And in my medical training, becoming a primary care doctor, I realized that older adults, women and men were having a lot of these same symptoms. 50 to 70% of people who are diagnosed with UTIs probably don’t have a UTI. How good are clinicians and nurses in following these guidelines or diagnosing a UTI?