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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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.” Emmy: I would say one big thing, though, is I try to not just make any decision based on a diagnosis, perhaps obviously.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

But we know that 30% of all decedents who are Medicare beneficiaries either die from dementia or have an existing diagnosis of dementia, which is something we talk about quite often, Joel and I. Fifty percent have a diagnosis in their record of decedents have dementia. We’re available, palliative care. Joel: Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

And the actors were blinded to whether this was a primary care doctor or a chat bot answering them. The results were that the chat bots got the diagnoses right and had an escalation strategy that was better than the doctors, as judged by blinded specialists reading the transcripts. They had no idea. I’m connecting.

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