GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

How should we screen for cognitive impairment? Who do you think we should be screening and how should we be screening them for these symptoms? Well, so I guess it depends on what you say screening. That screening influences kind of further treatment, actually, probably more importantly, patient outcomes.

Primary Care 95

Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 95

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

So if you can think about certain decisions like continuing to screen for certain cancers like colon cancer or breast cancer, or how strict you should control diabetes or blood pressures. We know that a lot of times with cancer screening, you don’t actually get benefits right away and it can cause potential harms right away.

IT 95

IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

You know, I work in the VA and we have somebody who doesn’t have the finances to support a stay in a nursing home and they’re on hospice. Like an AI robot goes in the room with the screen and that links to the human palliative care provider and is also the companion. And it’s amazing. right there.

Referral 78

Referral Nurse Practitioner Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

Ruth: Very strong odor, devoid of furniture, broken screens … Eric: So it was the physical environment and … Ruth: Physical environment. That’s a problem in our healthcare financing system. But we did see a trend where the three highest nursing homes were the most unpleasant. We didn’t respond.

Nurse Practitioner 60

Nurse Practitioner Hospital Family Families 60