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

JULY 21, 2022

That’s where it really gets to this individual risks and balances, individual situation. And I’ve been to some presentations that use that same breaking bad news model for having these driving conversations, as are used in palliative care. Alex: Yeah. Terri, I wonder if you could comment on that. Absolutely.

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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? Why not use the older term unbefriended?

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