Imperial Center Family Medicine

JUNE 9, 2025

Effective blood pressure management requires taking the appropriate medicine as prescribed by a healthcare professional and implementing appropriate lifestyle changes. Many individuals with high blood pressure must take specific drugs to keep it at a healthy level. The goal is to find the best mix with minimal side effects.

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

JUNE 9, 2025

Effective blood pressure management requires taking the appropriate medicine as prescribed by a healthcare professional and implementing appropriate lifestyle changes. Many individuals with high blood pressure must take specific drugs to keep it at a healthy level. The goal is to find the best mix with minimal side effects.

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Management Medical Treatment Plan Family Medicine 52

East Cary Family Physicians

OCTOBER 20, 2023

In this blog, we’ll explore the importance of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, focusing on early detection, prevention, and the vital role of regular screenings in women’s healthcare. Genetic counseling and testing can help individuals understand their risk. The average risk of a woman in the U.S.

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Family Physicians of Greeley

MAY 17, 2023

Create a relaxing bedtime routine, avoid screens before bed, and ensure your sleeping environment is comfortable and conducive to restful sleep. If you struggle with sleep difficulties, consider implementing relaxation techniques or consulting with a healthcare professional.

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Mental Health Physicals Healthcare Professional Relationship 40

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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IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Clinic 120

GeriPal

JUNE 23, 2022

Cancer screening is designed to detect slow growing cancers that on average take 10 years to cause harm. The benefits of mammography breast cancer screening rise with age, peak when women are in their 60s, and decline thereafter. This is about cancer screening in older adults. Summary Transcript Summary. Mara: Thank you so much.

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GeriPal

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. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Jessie: Exactly. 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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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary Falls are very common among older adults but often go unreported or untreated by healthcare providers. What are ways we should screen for falls? People don’t ask about it, they don’t screen about it. How do you screen or assess for risk for falls? Eric 04:51 Yeah. What do you do?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

These individuals may become unrepresented, meaning they lack the capacity to make a specific medical decision, do not have an advance directive for that decision, and do not have a surrogate to help. How should we care for unrepresented individuals in inpatient and outpatient settings? So there’s no healthcare surrogate.

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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.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. David: Right.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. Katie: Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

We covered: The first parody song I wrote, for AGS 2018 in Orlando , about this article by Nancy Schoenborn on how to discuss stopping cancer screening. Annie 02:31 So if you go to the A G S meeting every year, you know that this group of three individuals comprises the AGS literature update. So this is something. We did a role play.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

When we have a medication with up front harms and downstream benefits, it’s critical that we consider the time to benefit, or how long it will take an individual to benefit from a test or treatment. Think of the 10 years it takes to benefit from colon or breast cancer screening, which is designed to detect slow growing cancers.

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

Stacy: We’re using anxiety, baseline anxiety, as our screening. Alex: So that’s not our prototypical screening ESAS question. I don’t want the public, or the healthcare field, to say, “It’s safe and effective, I can go do it.” Do they have to have distress, pain, depression?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. 2023.11.004.

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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

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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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

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. What it found is that healthcare providers are better at identifying people that are connected more than disconnected. Ashwin Kotwal: Oh, wow. Thomas: Yeah.

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IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 99

GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

So classically with preparation, in individual settings or even in group settings, you have one or two people supporting people through psychoeducation, what to expect, life review. They communicated by looking at a letter screen and it would track his eye movements. Eric 11:35 A large dose, small dose, microdose, A large dose.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 107

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

James: Yeah, so I guess just to start… I mean, prognosis in general is kind of a term for predicted course of disease, and I think people commonly use it to refer to an individual’s life expectancy or how long the person has to live. I think this is a really difficult topic to talk about with patients. James: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

So I actually got started in cancer screening also, thanks to some mutual colleagues. Very interested in decision making around as we get older, individualizing care, sort of patient centered, values driven, it’s a tough decision to figure out. Like for me, my NF1, is it a good idea to get screened for cancer or not?

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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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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

So, how can we improve palliative care for individuals in nursing homes? So it’s, you know, nursing homes are part of the healthcare sector, but they’re also part of the social care sector in the same building. Despite these substantial needs, specialized palliative care beyond hospice is rare in nursing homes. right there.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And so we worked closely with a community advisory group who, through focus groups, told us how it was that black and white individuals with serious illness had wanted to be treated. Like, would you include the doctors that I work with, healthcare providers where I live in Marin? So their caregivers did focus groups. Our consultation.

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GeriPal

MAY 29, 2025

So I think the examples that we’ve seen is an individual will all of a sudden start using humor in a particular way or will using wry humor and that is reminiscent of the kind of humor the person used prior to developing dementia. And Andrea, you can help me out here. And the Clin. Eric 17:28 But what if it’s the other?

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Family Families IT Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

I had it on my screen. So I think until we figure out how to deliver these evidence based interventions in resource intense places with individuals like you, who are committed to research, committed to furthering the science, it’s really hard to think about how to disseminate them to the community. Jennifer: Yeah. But we have to.

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Because there is a lot intense discussion, I guess we were talking about this before with the stages of grief, how individualized is there is no right way or wrong way. The post Prolonged Grief Disorder: Holly Prigerson appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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IT Relationship Complication Specialization 100

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

Ruth: Very strong odor, devoid of furniture, broken screens … Eric: So it was the physical environment and … Ruth: Physical environment. Caroline: And I love how you highlight the importance of these staff biases, perhaps implicit bias that is driving some of these healthcare decisions. Eric: What does unpleasant look like?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

was supported by the fossil fuel industry , because it shifted responsibility for change from industry to individuals. So our elders who are people of color, people who live in places that are already challenged by poor air quality and those things and access to healthcare, they also have greater risks. Ruth: Yeah. Ruth: Yeah.

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Healthcare IT Education Hospital 129

GeriPal

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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Mental Health IT Community Individual 123

GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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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? Eric 26:39 But I’m also hearing that 1 out of 10 newly diagnosed cases are not those individuals. So that is why there are different screening guideline recommendations around osteoporosis.

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Primary Care IT Provider Clinic 94

GeriPal

DECEMBER 1, 2023

I think that the actuarial data are compelling, that elevated amyloid alone in some individuals can lead to downstream dementia. I haven’t yet seen those clinical trials with beta-amyloid in asymptomatic individuals to allow me to reach that conclusion. That’s what got hyperlipidemia turned into hyperlipidemia.

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IT Clinic Illness Hypertension 115

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Eric: And looking back at that time, what do you think the healthcare system could have done to help with that? So I thought… And I was doing this for the United States Preventive Services Task Force because we were looking at the evidence to what’s the benefit and harm of screening, and I had to look all over.

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