GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

This whole conference that Ab puts on, and all of the tools and resources that he provides people and families with dementia are about, how do you build on the remaining strengths? I’m at home, but I’m doing joint assessment with even a geriatrician in complex cases and providing guidance. She had been included.

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Community IT Individual Patient-Centered 101

Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

They also provide immunizations and lifestyle advice tailored to your specific needs. It creates a continuous health history that benefits both you and your provider. They're designed to provide quick, efficient medical attention for conditions that require timely care but aren't life-threatening.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

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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Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 95

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 129

Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed. In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals. This requires emergency treatment.

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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.” Or somebody who has other physical cognitive problems at any age. Those things do just accumulate with age. Emmy: Yeah.

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IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

However, lack of physical presence may make this contender struggle to land the emotional support punch that is at the very heart of palliative care. So they had to be within three months of diagnosis and they were going to be randomly assigned to either the traditional model that we’ve been testing. Who will emerge victorious?

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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

Controlled substances that have an accepted medical use are classified in schedules II-V based on their relative potential for abuse and physical and psychological dependence. or a currently accepted medical use with severe restrictions; and The drug’s relative safety or ability to produce physical dependence compared to other drugs.

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Medical Physicals IT Healthcare Professional 69

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. And this has been really interesting because people are like, they just got their diagnosis.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 96

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Knowing that the community is really underrepresented in sort of our knowledge, what we do, how we provide care that’s truly inclusive and welcoming. Gender expression is your physical outward manifestation of how you express your gender identity. It was personal to me, but also right. Eric 29:17 Why do you think that is?

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Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 81

GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

By diagnosis? Kate: You just embed it into routine care and workflows, and you really aim for a broader population,, outcomes that are routinely collected care that can be provided in the course of routine care, and not trying to manipulate and control all of the factors. Or there’s physical symptom needs. By prognosis?

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Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis IT 99

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Now actually suggesting perhaps that you missed a diagnosis that you should have considered? I actually like reading books and the physical,” and what the internet 2.0 I think the AI can allow for that complexity but still provide some guidance. Eric: Yeah. Dr. Smith, I believe you missed an emotional cue. Charlotta: Yeah.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 99

GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

For example, we once thought that the lower urinary tract was sterile, but we now know it has its own microbiome, which may even provide protection against infections. Eric: And then as we talk about Venn diagrams, probably the most common reflexive thing that providers do when they hear about lower urinary tract symptoms is they check a UA.

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Management IT Medical Patient-Centered 122

GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

I wonder from a provider perspective, if you’re open to talking about your team. I think that as everyone is already starting to allude to, I think that there’s this in between space with adolescence and young adulthood that falls between our two areas of pediatrics and adult provider work. Eric: Yeah. It was incredible.

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IT Family Families Illness 83

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

And for many years, I think there was a focus on physicians and then providers. So the first thing, explain the diagnosis. Gordon 12:01 One absolute right answer to all these questions, and we will provide that. Your patients expect you to care for them, their mental well being, their physical well being.

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IT Illness Families Family 132

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 126

GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

This office is tasked with providing aging policy research and recommendations within ASPE, including long term care and the National Alzheimer’s Project Act. And that led to many specialists doing work and advancing their fields within their professional societies, providing guidance and so on for older adults.

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Patient-Centered Complication IT Patients 52

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Jennifer: Yeah, so I think as all the listeners of this podcast know, and I know he did do a podcast with you guys when he was still able to verbally communicate, with Randy Curtis’ diagnosis of, I keep wanting to say AML, ALS. The model is predominantly physicians, advanced practice providers. I have oncology on the brain.

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

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

JUNE 22, 2023

And that grew into a group of volunteers coming back and at least providing support groups, giving those men a place where they could talk at least. They didn’t have a mentor, a financial provider, all of those things. You can choose comfort-focused care or you can choose to continue chemotherapy. They suffered from it.

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Family Families IT Community 132

GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

Why focus on the public rather than other health care providers? How do they deal with professional barriers and the barrage of comments? How you actually physically started doing this and built up so many followers over time and why are you doing it? I do think other healthcare providers need to learn about this.

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Education IT Illness Healthcare 127

GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This episode of the GeriPal Podcast is sponsored by the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital Division of Hospital Medicine , which is committed to providing outstanding, compassionate care to all patients, advancing health equity, and fostering excellence in hospital medicine.

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Illness Mental Health IT Patient-Centered 101

GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

It’s easier to concentrate on cure, diagnosis, cure. What she called total pain, physical, psychosocial, and spiritual, and she started addressing it. And then there are a number of groups that go out in vans and cars and go out into the surrounding community of Kerala to provide care for patients who are in their homes.

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Community IT Relationship Healthcare 115

GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Instead, what if your surgeon told you that the operation she was discussing could help with only 4 things: live longer, feel better, prevent disability, or obtain a diagnosis? It can help prevent disability, or it can make a diagnosis and that’s it. Wasn’t that the Provide Your Opinion, Don’t Hide It?

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IT Families Family Patient-Centered 128

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

And I think the crisis that we’re in right now in healthcare delivery, the idea of laying down my badge, I think that’s maybe a metaphor for being a sheriff, but what about being a healthcare provider? They look at the signs and symptoms, they do a physical exam, maybe some lab tests or some imaging.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Holly has accumulated mountains of evidence for the diagnosis of prolonged grief disorder as a specific condition primarily notable for a yearning over a year after the death. And what we mean is like they’re physical numbness or they trip over that particular symptom, but it’s that sense of detachment from living people.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

And really providing these estimates of how long a person has to live affects a lot of the decisions we have to make clinically. That’s a difficult decision to make, and providing these estimates can help clinicians and patients with that type of shared decision-making. That’s been reported previously.

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IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Keri: It does remind me, Dani, of that scapegoating phenomenon, when you’re talking about projection, where you see anger getting projected onto another person or a team, saying, “Oh, it’s the physical therapist’s fault or the oncologist is culpable.” I wish they were just a diagnosis. Dani: Totally.

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Patients IT Families Family 109

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease. So at our cancer center, we have physicians, advanced practice providers. They had access to the cancer center resources, but they didn’t have access to sort of regular contact with palliative care mental health professionals. English or spanish speakers.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Wait, so one key message is that social health is linked to physical and cognitive health?!? And so spouses are typically the ones for patients who provide most of the caregiving support. And that’s in addition to the financial, emotional companionship, and psychosocial support that spouses typically provide.

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Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

Like yourself, when I was a resident, and pain has been shaped in our mind as being a purely physical sensation, especially on the clinical side, where this idea that pain is complex and that pain is as much an emotion as much as physical sensation is not really something we are trained to do. Haider: That was a great story.

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Patient-Centered Physicals IT Patients 105

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

So this is about two and a half, three years out from leukemia diagnosis. And that really is what prompted me to get certified as a sexual education provider. It sits at the intersection of emotion, interpersonal, physical, psychological, cultural. And I said, sure. And she’s like, is it okay for me to kiss my husband now?

Illness 130

Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Family 106

Family Families Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

And so a lot of it was the facilitators calling out with the approval of the provider to the patients ahead of time to see, like, you have a visit coming up. You didn’t ask about it, but for us, it was very important to examine differences for older adults with a diagnosis of dementia. This is what I do here.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 79