GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) concluded back in 2000 that there is insufficient evidence to recommend for or against routine screening for dementia in older adults. If so, how do we screen and who do we screen? What should we use to screen individuals? Cognitive screening.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

And so I was really thinking about why are some of my people that are hospitalized doing better than others? Thomas: But the person did screen and used a little bit of the and Social Network Scale and the UCLA Loneliness Scale. Like I said, the patient screened positive for it. Ashwin Kotwal: Oh, wow. What would it be?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

And so we do see hospital admissions for heat exposure and certainly cardiovascular and respiratory problems related to air pollution with climate change and also cognitive problems. And actually, we worked with a hospital on a project like that to demonstrate we don’t need to wear gloves for every time we touch a patient.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

At the Mayo clinic, for example, they’ve got a very robust hospital at home program. And it happened, and it happened in large part, as you note, because of enormous stimulus from the US government for health systems to adopt electronic health records. We’ve got to get better at trying to anticipate the unanticipated.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

Today we talk with Margot Kushel about how we got here, including: That sense of powerlessness as a clinician when you “fix up” a patient in the hospital, only to discharge them to the street knowing things will fall apart. We would admit them to the hospital. Who doesn’t want to leave the hospital?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The way we were treating him with dementia in the hospital, the way we talked about him, that he’s not there. Malaz: … to restrain them in the hospital. You come over to the clinic, you go to the hospital, you provide service, and the insurance and you negotiate how much you’re going to get paid. Diane: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

We’ve lived through lockdowns, toilet paper shortages, mask mandates, hospital surges where ICU’s overflowed, a million COVID deaths, prolonged school closures, development and roll out of novel vaccines, an explosion of social isolation and loneliness, and the invention of the “zoom meeting.” . But hospitalizations are low.

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