GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

Alex 00:30 And we’re delighted to welcome Alison Huang, who’s a primary care doc and researcher and professor of medicine, urology, and epi-biostats at UCSF in the division of General Internal Medicine. But then there is incontinence, which is the same term, same word, but actually presents as a geriatric syndrome.

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

Should do medicine?” ” Because I loved internal medicine. Issues with sleep, like insomnia, does it lead towards a diagnosis of dementia, increase your risk, or is it that people with cognitive impairment, an early-on symptom is sleep disturbances and it’s more of a sign or symptom of early cognitive issues?

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

Alex is a triple-boarded (palliative care, internal medicine, and psychiatry) assistant professor of medicine at Stanford. I think I certainly have had a lot of friends and colleagues in internal medicine who are so fearful that, oh, if I get this definition wrong, I’m going to cause some harm. I wonder why?

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

The ability to appreciate, recognize, and engage with music is preserved even until late stages of dementia, and Theresa is examining how music can be useful from the time of diagnosis, not only for the person with dementia, but their caregivers. You emailed me about doing a podcast on music and medicine. Jenny 04:15 Good question.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Eric 12:05 Any pearls on the diagnosis of HFpEF. So I would agree, just in terms of not trying to dismiss a lot of these patients in terms of deconditioning and really trying to sometimes hone in on the diagnosis despite a Bnp level that is not necessarily very high. Nicole 12:14 No, HFpEF is cool, and it’s fine. What is GDMT?

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Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

” And we can offer things, someone presents with a nutritional need, but we can say, ask about, “Do you need grab bars in your shower? 60% of all medical costs have nothing to do with your health diagnosis. ” And then, the health plan can say, “Can you follow-up on this?” Do I have access to good food?

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Today we are delighted to welcome Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, and Danny Scerpella, who conducted a pragmatic trial of advance care planning (ACP) in primary care practices; and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who wrote an accompanying commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine. And then we also looked at subgroups with who are 75 years and older.

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