Edge Family Medicine

APRIL 10, 2025

Whether you’re visiting for an annual physical, managing a chronic condition, or simply seeking guidance on wellness, a consistent relationship with your provider creates the foundation for better outcomes and a better experience. From lab work to screenings, consistent care means catching problems before they escalate.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Relationship PCP PCP 130

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? How should we screen for cognitive impairment? Who should we be screening as far as.

Primary Care 97

Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 97

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Analyzing the Health and Retirement Study, she found 60% of older adults screened positive for depression in the last year of life (related study here ). We saw that around 60% of people were screening positive for depression in the last month before death. Or is it that I’m just not screening? That’s a lot.

Mental Health 123

Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 123

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?” We and many others have tried to come up with a short, validated screening tool.

IT 102

IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

So if you can think about certain decisions like continuing to screen for certain cancers like colon cancer or breast cancer, or how strict you should control diabetes or blood pressures. We know that a lot of times with cancer screening, you don’t actually get benefits right away and it can cause potential harms right away.

IT 95

IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that. Our early studies were looking at things like, desire for death, and syndromal depression, and screening for depression and anxiety, and will to live. We examine, we diagnose, we fix. She died at the age of 55, and was born with cerebral palsy.

Patient-Centered 98

Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98