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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Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Elissa: Well, I don’t know what you’re doing in your practice, but I think you just touched on a lot of the trickiness around mental health assessment at end of life or in the context of serious illness. We might say, “Of course you’re sad, you just got a very serious diagnosis.”

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Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

So here in California, if somebody uses end of life options, wants to die, and I’m doing their mental health assessment, I do have to make sure that they have decision making capacity. But some of the nuance I would want to point out is that, like Brent mentioned, first of all, this is not a diagnosis. Very, very common.

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Illness Mental Health IT Patient-Centered 101