GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

I’m a dementia specialist, and so what I was experiencing was that many people were coming to see me to get a diagnosis of a very straightforward case of mild Alzheimer’s or moderate Alzheimer’s disease, whose doctors had told them there was nothing wrong with them or that their memory was better than my own, says the doctor.

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Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 119

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Often when there’s a cognitive concern, it’s a family member that is calling saying, “I just want to make sure my mom should still be driving after this happened, or after this diagnosis.” Certainly my bias is that healthcare professionals really do have a role in this discussion. Absolutely. Emmy: Yeah.

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Family Families IT Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

You present your. When you have, when you exist simply for being you, and then on top of that you have HIV AIDS as a diagnosis or substance use or what have diabetes, all of these will accelerate your aging. So that’s how. Just how you. Your gender. Eric 29:17 Why do you think that is?

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Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 85

GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

And for a few reasons, which I’m sure we’ll get into, I think it’s probably most effective upstream of the acute care setting, more in the nursing home setting or for patients who are not presenting in the hospital or emergency department setting. What they want is things that are important to them, maybe live longer.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 126

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

” And we can offer things, someone presents with a nutritional need, but we can say, ask about, “Do you need grab bars in your shower? 60% of all medical costs have nothing to do with your health diagnosis. ” And then, the health plan can say, “Can you follow-up on this?” Do I have access to good food?

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

So we have to collect what information we have available from Health Information exchange and electronic health records. Sydney 21:41 So we did find increased documentation of the primary outcome in the electronic health records. Sydney 22:01 Well, it’s what’s in the electronic health record. Eric 22:03 Okay.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 79

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

That this is iterative from diagnosis to end-of-life, right? But one of the things that I try to teach, because both Juliet and I have done a ton of teaching about this, is that if you follow these steps, that outcome sort of presents itself. What’s that and what’s the shift there? Juliet: Sure. Get the hospice referral.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Family 98