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Understanding Heat Stroke: Symptoms and Essential Solutions

Doctor On Demand

Consulting a medical professional can provide expert guidance on managing the situation effectively. Utilizing online doctor consultations can offer prompt evaluation and recommendations, especially when seeking immediate medical attention is challenging.

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

But the thing that really motivates me is seeing, you know, and trying to manage later stage, you know, we can call them complications of people who haven’t had a diagnosis are now really in, you know, a world of complexity around other conditions, around managing life and managing practical things.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

We have our social workers and our psychologists and we know how to manage these symptoms. Emergency rooms. Eric: To all of our emergency medicine colleagues, saved the best for the last. Eric: To all of our emergency medicine colleagues, saved the best for the last. I’m just stunned even writing that! Eric: Okay.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

Why is that important in the emergency room? Actually, our training as emergency physicians is mostly to resuscitate to acute care. It was like this patient is on hospice and call the case manager to figure out how the patient ended up here. Did this primary palliative care intervention in the emergency room involving a.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

Started as a direct case manager, worked in a variety of different places including the state legislature and I’ve been with the state office now since 2006. As a managed care state also, our care managers in managed care for Medicaid could be 300 miles away. Eric: And Susan? Having that visual is really important.

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

So one that the primary outcome was supposed to be documentation, which it improved documentation, it wasn’t powered to actually look at any utilization or hard outcomes. And then three weeks later, you’re in the emergency room and somebody else talks with you for a little while. They were slightly mischaracterized.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. I didn’t know how to manage it. The typical utilization of inappropriate hospitalization and emergency room and total cost of care.