Events Healthcare Professional Medical Screening 
Physician's Weekly
JUNE 11, 2025
Despite the hours spent counseling tobacco cessation, encouraging the use of inhalers with proper technique, ensuring compliance with durable medical equipment, and enrolling in pulmonary rehabilitation, more than once have we observed these methods fall short of the expected outcome. can provide valuable insights into their quality of life.
GeriPal
JANUARY 23, 2025
Summary Transcript CME Summary Its another deprescribing super special on today’s GeriPal Podcast, where we delve into the latest research on deprescribing medications prescribed to older adults. Today, we explore four fascinating studies highlighting innovative approaches to reducing medication use and improving patient outcomes.
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GeriPal
MAY 5, 2022
Screening for addressing hearing loss should be an integral part of what we do in geriatrics and palliative care, but it often is either a passing thought or completely ignored. How to screen for hearing loss. One thing we’ve looked at a little bit, but it has not been well studied is the accumulation of ototoxic medications.
GeriPal
JULY 27, 2023
Cathy: Actually, many years ago, I did some research on delirium and then I was doing some research on nursing home residents and we were doing work looking at, I was interested in how sleep problems and nighttime events might lead to delirium, and then I just became very, very interested in sleep. Sometimes that’s medications.
GeriPal
MARCH 9, 2023
Today we largely focus on reasons for caution, including: We know almost nothing about psychedelics in older adults – only about 1% of patients in published trials were older adults, much less older adults with multiple chronic conditions, multiple medications, and frailty. There is a marked lack of diversity in published trials.
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
We also explored several questions with them, including how to define trauma, its prevalence in older adults, the impact of past traumatic experiences, the potential triggers of trauma screening, and the application of trauma-informed principles in clinical practice. So there’s an event or a series of events.
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
When we have a medication with up front harms and downstream benefits, it’s critical that we consider the time to benefit, or how long it will take an individual to benefit from a test or treatment. Think of the 10 years it takes to benefit from colon or breast cancer screening, which is designed to detect slow growing cancers.
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