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

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? Eric 14:10 Yeah.

Primary Care 114

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 114

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Or somebody who has other physical cognitive problems at any age. This is something we’ve heard from people: that if you just bring it up every year as part of your routine physical, like, “Any concerns about driving?” Somebody who’s older, maybe just diagnosed them with very mild dementia. Emmy: Yeah.

Families 102

Families IT Family Diagnosis 102

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

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

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. So I mean, I had referrals from as far as Canadian Arctic North, of people who were interested in doing dignity therapy. We examine, we diagnose, we fix.

Patient-Centered 98

Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

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. And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. Palliative care.

Patient-Centered 120

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 120

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.

Primary Care 80

Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 80