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? Should it?

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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. We talk with Nick and Meg about: Why hearing loss is important not just in geriatrics but also for those caring for seriously ill individuals. Is that right?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

So what we found is up to 30% of people would call 911 again for a fall, and of those calls, some people became very high-utilizers and so they would call 911 over and over again. I think once someone becomes kind of a high-utilizer, it’s a slippery slope. All of these are factors that are on the individual level.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

If I remember correctly, I think the average was, people were screening positive for depression in this study. However, its main predictors are age, comorbidity, and healthcare utilization. So, I love how tailored and individualized it was, and that’s what this process evaluation is really showing us, so far.

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Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

It is a screening? Chaplains can do an assessment of the spirituality of the individual and then they use interventions that are part of their discipline and those interventions are tailored to the individual’s spiritual and religious needs of the person that they’re caring for. I guess FICA is not as cool as SKY.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

So, how can we improve palliative care for individuals in nursing homes? Eric 17:06 Think like almost 50% of nursing home decedents utilize hospice, and that number has grown over the last two decades. Like, yeah, utilization of hospice has increased pretty well. Some will have stronger relationships with hospice. right there.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Just an extraordinary cast of individuals who were really so incredibly inspiring. Our early studies were looking at things like, desire for death, and syndromal depression, and screening for depression and anxiety, and will to live. And I did a fellowship with Dr. Jimmy Holland and met just these incredible luminaries in our field.

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