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

Initially, it was just because there weren’t really answers for my patients. 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.” “When can I get back to driving?”

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Family Families IT Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

You have a patient with dementia severe enough that she cannot recognize relatives. A huge part of this decision rests on (1) her previously stated wishes, values, and goals (prior to the onset of dementia); and (2) the outcomes of surgery for patients with dementia. Summary Transcript Summary. She falls and breaks her hip.

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Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

We discuss, among other things: Findings that in several studies AI was rated by patients as more empathetic than human clinicians (not less, that isn’t a typo). The experience of both patients and clinicians isn’t very good. Bob recently wrote an essay in JAMA on AI and delivered a UCSF Grand Round s on the same topic.

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