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PEMBlog
OCTOBER 2, 2024
I’ll dive into the latest clinical practice guidelines and discuss evidence-based approaches to diagnosis and treatment. The role of lifestyle and dietary modifications in management. Management of gastritis and the consideration of Helicobacter pylori infection. Understanding dyspepsia and its clinical presentation.
GeriPal
OCTOBER 13, 2022
How we came about to select these articles or to have interest in this topic is really older adults are unique population that are at risk for both over diagnosis of infections as well as under diagnosis of infections. There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations.
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GeriPal
JULY 28, 2022
GeriPal post on “fast food” style palliative care in chronic critical illness. But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families. Additional links: Editorial on Areej’s study. Palliative care in lung and GI cancers.
GeriPal
JULY 11, 2024
So folks that are having refractory ascites or refractory encephalopathies, challenging emotional symptom management as well. Like, with a cancer diagnosis, there’s relatively a smooth, smooth prognosis. We know what’s going to happen. Kirsten 14:33 That’s one of the things that draws you to it, right?
GeriPal
MAY 22, 2025
Jenny Chen is a palliative care fellow at Yale who regularly sings for her seriously ill patients. Our volunteers are starting to take over ownership of this program, so we’re kind of like building a team to help kind of maintain it, manage it, and make sure that everything’s on the up and up with it. And we’re.
GeriPal
JUNE 30, 2022
Should she be treated non-operatively, with aggressive symptom management? 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. Joel: Yeah. Eric: Yeah.
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
And I was really excited just to learn how to manage these patients, because in the patients in geriatrics clinic that we see, fractures just can be so devastating and result in loss of independence. And so many older adults with diagnosis of osteoporosis have never received any therapy for it. James: Yeah. That has a good ending.
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