GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Analyzing the Health and Retirement Study, she found 60% of older adults screened positive for depression in the last year of life (related study here ). We saw that around 60% of people were screening positive for depression in the last month before death. Or is it that I’m just not screening? That’s a lot.

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GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

We covered: The first parody song I wrote, for AGS 2018 in Orlando , about this article by Nancy Schoenborn on how to discuss stopping cancer screening. This was 2018 in AGS Orlando, and they did a song about when to stop screening for cancer for colon cancer. How to talk to patients about screening colonoscopies. Ken 10:29 Yes.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Eric 33:25 What about telehealth? Yes, I know Lynn Flinton, who’s a frequent guest host of this podcast, was actually one of the interventionists in her studies is like, would be the palliative care doc who’s looking on a screen and being wheeled into somebody’s room on a monitor. Eric 30:01 That’s beautiful.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Marie 16:30 I actually don’t think it matters if you can establish rapport and if you do good telehealth etiquette, which is seeing who else is in the room, addressing everybody that was there, et cetera. And they had requested in their cultural tailing that the physician wore a white coat when he was going to be seen on the screen.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

Ruth: Very strong odor, devoid of furniture, broken screens … Eric: So it was the physical environment and … Ruth: Physical environment. Caroline: Again, just further educating on the front lines and families in particular, I think is really important as well as these policy implications. This doesn’t work.”

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

Ongoing reports from patients about anti-Asian hate experiences Should clinicians screen for Anti-Asian hate? question used to screen for domestic violence. Like, do you think maybe, you know, let’s educate. So the reasons for not screening are time constraint. And that goes to the point of why we should screen.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

This DEA is taking 6-months to consider how to move forward vis a vis restrictions and requirements for telehealth in a post-pandemic world. So we’re going to be talking about telemedicine, telehealth for people with serious illness. Brooke: So I think of telehealth as the umbrella. Now is the time to act, dear listeners!

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