GeriPal

MAY 29, 2025

I think we have ideas about are these paradoxical events, are they expected? And I think Andrew’s going to have good ideas about, like, why the term paradoxical and are these events paradoxical, truly? So that would be how I would describe what lucidity looks like. Andrew could talk about. Eric 03:57 Well, maybe we could just.

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Families Family IT Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

James: Yeah, so I guess just to start… I mean, prognosis in general is kind of a term for predicted course of disease, and I think people commonly use it to refer to an individual’s life expectancy or how long the person has to live. I think this is a really difficult topic to talk about with patients. James: Yeah.

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IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

I had it on my screen. So I think until we figure out how to deliver these evidence based interventions in resource intense places with individuals like you, who are committed to research, committed to furthering the science, it’s really hard to think about how to disseminate them to the community. Jennifer: Yeah. ” Right?

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

was supported by the fossil fuel industry , because it shifted responsibility for change from industry to individuals. And so any additional stressor such as heat or an extreme weather event or having to move from your home because of a climate related disaster can really tax an older adult whose window of resilience is more limited.

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Healthcare IT Education Community 129

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

What are the structural factors and individual factors that contribute to homelessness? In terms of their risk, in terms of how we think of preventive health, as we think of screening, all of those things, I would turn around to the geriatricians and say, “Check your implicit bias. Check your Eurocentric, middle class thinking.

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Mental Health IT Community Individual 123

GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

So if you already have a condition, you might be able to prevent events. And for any, any diet, it can, we can really tweak it to an individual’s preferences, their needs, that kind of thing. Elizabeth Eckstrom is a geriatrician, professor of medicine at OHSU, and author of a new book, the Gift of Aging.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 1, 2023

I think that the actuarial data are compelling, that elevated amyloid alone in some individuals can lead to downstream dementia. I haven’t yet seen those clinical trials with beta-amyloid in asymptomatic individuals to allow me to reach that conclusion. That’s what got hyperlipidemia turned into hyperlipidemia. Jason: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JULY 16, 2024

We talk about positive aspects of aging, cognitive screening, the line between legitimate concerns and ageism, ableism, advice for a geriatrician asked to comment on TV, frailty and physical disability, images in the press , historical situations including , and an upper age limit for the Presidency, among other issues.

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