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Beyond Training: How Context Matters for Early Detection of Alzheimers Disease in Primary Care [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context Global healthcare systems are not prepared to care for the 55 million individuals worldwide affected by Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD), with cases continuing to rise. clinical consensus, financing mechanisms) and the organization (e.g.,

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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

GeriPal

Eric 00:27 So we’re going to be talking about making the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease in a primary care setting, not specialty care, but maybe we could talk a little bit about that. How much should it change how we think about making a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease in primary care? Great to be back. Absolutely.

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Involving the inner circle: Emily Largent, Anne Rohlfing, Lynn Flint & Anne Kelly

GeriPal

My favorite line from Emily’s paper: “Geriatric assent has not been widely adopted in clinical care, but bioethicists should advocate for this, as adoption of partial-involvement strategies can prolong the period in which individuals are (appropriately) engaged in decisions about their health care.” I’m not going to talk about finances.

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New Prognostic Models for Older Adults: Alex Lee, James Deardorff, Sei Lee

GeriPal

James: Yeah, so I guess just to start… I mean, prognosis in general is kind of a term for predicted course of disease, and I think people commonly use it to refer to an individual’s life expectancy or how long the person has to live. I think this is a really difficult topic to talk about with patients.

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Health and Wealth Shocks: Lauren Hunt, Rebecca Rodin, Tsai-Chin Cho

GeriPal

Eric 12:03 I’m interested in that because I hear a lot about people losing their, like, one way, like people get health issue and then lose all their finances, especially in the U.S. Those are all things that could dramatically be a major health shock for an individual. So let’s put a pin in that. Alex 14:28 Yeah, yeah.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

How is it financed and what comes next? I think Bruce can speak to that, I think, 30-year gap in finances. The other way to think about who’s eligible… I talked about coming at this from a diagnosis point of view, people with certain conditions that you need to be hospitalized for. Yeah, Eric: Yeah.

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Trump Whacks Agency That Makes the Nation’s Health Care Safer

Physicians News Digest

But neither Kennedy nor President Donald Trump have explained why individual agencies such as AHRQ were targeted for cuts or indicated whether any of their work would continue. There are things we could learn to improve our care and get more timely diagnosis of cancer.” “What we’ve been doing isn’t working,” he said.