GeriPal
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Analyzing the Health and Retirement Study, she found 60% of older adults screened positive for depression in the last year of life (related study here ). We saw that around 60% of people were screening positive for depression in the last month before death. Or is it that I’m just not screening? That’s a lot.
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. This was 2018 in AGS Orlando, and they did a song about when to stop screening for cancer for colon cancer. How to talk to patients about screening colonoscopies. Ken 10:29 Yes.
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GeriPal
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
Like, would you include the doctors that I work with, healthcare providers where I live in Marin? Marie 16:30 I actually don’t think it matters if you can establish rapport and if you do good telehealth etiquette, which is seeing who else is in the room, addressing everybody that was there, et cetera. Would you do it again?
GeriPal
JUNE 5, 2025
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. Eric 33:25 What about telehealth? 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. right there.
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?
GeriPal
AUGUST 15, 2024
Ongoing reports from patients about anti-Asian hate experiences Should clinicians screen for Anti-Asian hate? question used to screen for domestic violence. We do talk about healthcare policy. So some people said we had very strong opinions about, as clinicians, we should absolutely address these incidents and screen for them.
GeriPal
JULY 20, 2023
This DEA is taking 6-months to consider how to move forward vis a vis restrictions and requirements for telehealth in a post-pandemic world. So we’re going to be talking about telemedicine, telehealth for people with serious illness. Brooke: So I think of telehealth as the umbrella. Now is the time to act, dear listeners!
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