GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Noelle Marie 01:24 I think it really speaks a lot to my own personal journey and I’m pretty sure a lot of trans and gender diverse individuals also resonate with and it really speaks about our transition, celebrating our authentic selves, how society views us and how we view ourselves when we stand in front of a mirror.

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Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 85

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.” That’s where it really gets to this individual risks and balances, individual situation. Alex: Yeah.

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IT Families Family Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

But in reality, given workforce shortages and just the challenges and the resources necessary to be able to provide early integrated palliative care from the time of diagnosis of advanced cancer, the model simply is not implementable, at least not in our current state with our available infrastructure and resources. Joe 31:55 No differences.

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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We talk about what is heart failure, particularly HFpEF, how we treat it (including the use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2’s), and how we should apply guidelines to individual patients, especially those with multimorbidity who are taking a lot of other medications. Eric 12:05 Any pearls on the diagnosis of HFpEF.

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Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

So what is the role of individuals like geriatricians in prescribing amyloid antibodies and caring for individuals who are receiving them? And I do think geriatricians need to as individuals make that decision, largely based on their comfort with the diagnostics and the specifics of the therapeutics. I’m a prescriber.

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Patient-Centered IT Clinic Patients 98

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

In addition to being a palliative and hospice RN, she is the Executive Director for Goodwin Hospice , a large non-profit hospice that added end-of-life doula care to their services in collaboration with Jane and John’s doula organization, Present for You. It sets space between us and the individuals we’re trying to take care of.

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Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

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.” This is Eric Widera. Lynn: Sure.

Families 97

Families Family Patient-Centered IT 97

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Like, with a cancer diagnosis, there’s relatively a smooth, smooth prognosis. Is that, and we try to use, often use the term prognostic humility, that unlike more than any other diagnosis, really, we truly need to be humble, right. Sarah 24:24 See, I usually always present it as these are things we should think of.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

And so there was a report in 2009 by the Institute of Medicine saying that we need to equip all of these individuals in caring for older person in an evidence based manner. There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations.

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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

Alex: Self-administer and psychiatric illness is not considered a qualifying diagnosis. One thing I would like to add here is both Sonu and Leonie presented this as something that lacks boundaries. So it started off for individuals with a terminal illness. So they have to self-administer. Eric: Yeah. Sonu: Can I jump in?

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. What does this diagnosis mean to you? What are the ways that you can tell the story, the practice that you do?

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IT Families Family Clinic 102

GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

So she had them early in diagnosis and then a little bit later. Eric: Well, I’m going to jump around a little bit because I’m going to go, Brad, I had a chance to read some of your book and one of the chapters was on your own prostate cancer diagnosis. It’s all individual. Brad: Yeah. It’s impressive.

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Illness IT Diagnose Medical 128

GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

And for a few reasons, which I’m sure we’ll get into, I think it’s probably most effective upstream of the acute care setting, more in the nursing home setting or for patients who are not presenting in the hospital or emergency department setting. So we have the intervention is a big part.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 126

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

And when you and I talk about, what’s the key medical decision or diagnosis that we’re making all the time, we’re making a decision about like, “Is this patient sick enough to die? So we did a perfect cross so that the race and actual primary diagnosis was perfectly matched across groups.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Healthcare 111

GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

So we’re going to be talking about palliative care for individuals with mental illness. Dani 15:02 Speaking to the fact that we are talking about such a massive array of illnesses, of presentations of symptom severity, and trying to speak in generalizations. I think it’s very present in maid. Oh, yeah, yeah.

Illness 101

Illness Mental Health IT Patient-Centered 101

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. Again, as Greg said, where the individual chooses what works best for them. 60% of all medical costs have nothing to do with your health diagnosis. To Susan’s point.

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

This is a particularly interesting topic because we know that individuals with dementia have a high rate of entering nursing home. That just leads to issues that can make home care very difficult for these individuals. So you’re kind of the guest host today. Why did you do that paper, James? James 17:03 Yeah, I think so.

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Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

And again, if you were to go to, you know, AIDS in terms of transmission is primarily a sexually transmitted disease of young adults, which is why it presented the way it did in the pre treatment era, really all over the world. Is a new diagnosis of HIV. If they did, it was before AIDS was a diagnosis. Meredith 17:07 Yes.

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Primary Care IT Provider Clinic 94

GeriPal

DECEMBER 1, 2023

If you are interested in learning more about the draft guidelines and the response from AGS to these guidelines, check out the following links: Revised Criteria for Diagnosis and Staging of Alzheimer’s Disease: Alzheimer’s Association Workgroup AGS’s response to the revised criteria Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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IT Clinic Illness Hypertension 115

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

And is it at all individualized to the patient? Danny 12:07 I don’t know how individualized it is. You didn’t ask about it, but for us, it was very important to examine differences for older adults with a diagnosis of dementia. It’s a lot. Eric 12:01 Does it talk about like outcomes, like the outcomes of cpr?

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Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 79

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But what happened when we finally… When he did get the diagnosis, it all fell into place. But also there’s also, because many more people… Oftentimes, when I’ll be at a meeting, if I’m presenting, I’ll ask for show of hands how many people have had experience with dementia. Why do we need a story?”

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Patient-Centered IT Families Family 125

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

JAGS Hospital-at-Home Interventions vs In-Hospital Stay for Patients With Chronic Disease Who Present to the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. In our larger studies, before the study that Tacara helped lead, we never required family members to be present, or do work. Annals of Int Med. This is Eric Widera.

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Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115

GeriPal

JULY 16, 2024

Ken Covinsky reminds us that we should not be making a diagnosis based on what we see on TV, and that if a patient’s daughter expressed a concern that their parent “wasn’t right,” we would conduct an in depth evaluation that might last an hour. Cecilia Poon says, what are some best practices to highlight professional ethics?

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Diagnosis Diagnose IT Physicals 141