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Noreta Family Medicine

At Noreta Family Medicine, we offer hour-long appointments, allowing time to build a meaningful doctor-patient relationship and creating a space where patients can openly express their concerns and receive the attention they deserve. “ patients have easy access to their family doctor. patients feel heard and valued. Have a good week!

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

GeriPal

The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. We also take a dive into these 2 articles that Connie first authored: Palliative care in nursing homes: A qualitative study on referral criteria and implications for research and practice. So we see a lot of problems with symptom management, a lot of family conflict.

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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

GeriPal

We have two new FDA-approved medications that reduce that amyloid buildup and modestly slow down the progression of the disease. He is associate professor at the University of Wisconsin and medical director of their Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. So I get all the referrals from my great colleagues in primary care.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Whereas the home with the low rate of feeding tube use involved families in decision making. So we looked at hospital referral regions, and we looked at high- and low- intensity regions. There was a hesitancy to engage black families.

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New Prognostic Models for Older Adults: Alex Lee, James Deardorff, Sei Lee

GeriPal

But if they’re not going to live another 20 years, then there’s no point in giving them the extra medication for lowering their A1C. They wanted time to prepare, to get their spiritual house in order, to get right with God, to think about moving near to the grandkids, to get their finances in order, to prepare their wills.

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