GeriPal

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

We pepper Sarah with questions ranging from: Why should we care about falls? What are ways we should screen for falls? You know, I wonder how much, because it’s probably not brought up a lot in primary care settings. People don’t ask about it, they don’t screen about it. Eric 04:51 Yeah.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. Jessie: Exactly. Eric: Which brings us to an article. Katie: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

That’s where it really gets to this individual risks and balances, individual situation. Eric: But before we jump into talking to your patients about driving retirement cessation, let’s talk about what is the role of the healthcare professional in this at all? Alex: Yeah. Is this our role? Emmy: Yeah.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

David: People with these illnesses suffer from persistent symptoms, poor quality of life, depression, anxiety, despite all the great things we do and all our colleagues in those specialties and in primary care and geriatrics. If I remember correctly, I think the average was, people were screening positive for depression in this study.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Katie: Well, if we just look at what we can do ourselves for our bodies, I mean strengthening, balance training, working on motor control, keeping ourselves fed so that we maintain our proper nutrients in our body so we can maintain an upright position, those are all key things an individual hopefully would be trying to do as best as they could.

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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. Some of them are really deeply individual experiences.

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JUNE 5, 2025

Despite these substantial needs, specialized palliative care beyond hospice is rare in nursing homes. Furthermore, only about half of nursing home residents nearing the end of life receive hospice care. So, how can we improve palliative care for individuals in nursing homes? Eric 30:01 That’s beautiful. right there.

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JUNE 16, 2022

And in my medical training, becoming a primary care doctor, I realized that older adults, women and men were having a lot of these same symptoms. So I actually got started in cancer screening also, thanks to some mutual colleagues. So I actually got started in cancer screening also, thanks to some mutual colleagues.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

Ruth: Very strong odor, devoid of furniture, broken screens … Eric: So it was the physical environment and … Ruth: Physical environment. Eric: … there was care processes. Care processes, insufficient numbers of staff to feed. But we did see a trend where the three highest nursing homes were the most unpleasant.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

Eric 18:59 What is the recommendation currently for HIV screening in older adults or in non older adults? I mean, treatment is really best done in a chronic or continuity setting, whether it’s in a primary care setting or some other. In San Francisco, HIV care was more specialized in that. So it was more integrated.

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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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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

I mean people can walk to your office and you can have all kinds of problems recorded to your prescription just because they came to your office rather than you looked at them on a computer screen doesn’t really change. So I might say, what can we apply the same things? Go ahead Eric. I’m sorry.

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