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Chronic disease management among people with serious mental illness across rural, small urban, and metropolitan settings [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

These disparities may be related to differences in access to recommended chronic disease management. Objective: To describe patterns of chronic disease management across rural, small urban, and metropolitan settings, and explore variation by coinciding treatment for mental illness.

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Deprescribing Super Special Part II: Podcast with Elizabeth Bayliss, Ariel Green, and Kevin McConeghy

GeriPal

Next up, we chat with Liz Bayliss about her JAMA IM article that studied whether increasing awareness about deprescribing prior to primary care visits can reduce the use of potentially inappropriate long-term medications for individuals with cognitive impairment. Ariel: Yes. And costs you money. ” Eric: Huh. Eric: Can I ask?

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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

GeriPal

So, the question becomes, what, if anything, should we do differently in the primary care setting to diagnose the disease? On todays podcast, weve invited Nathaniel Chin back to the GeriPal podcast to talk about what primary care needs to manage this new world of Alzheimers disease effectively. Great to be back.

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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

GeriPal

To start with assessing all these syndromes and palliative care related problems and geriatric syndromes, so that we can create interventions that allow people to receive the cutting edge therapies. Fortunately, I am at an institution where they value patient-centered care and they give us that extra time. Well, I do it personally.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

GeriPal

So Eric Cassell, for folks who don’t know, was a primary care physician. But really was a seminal pioneering figure in the field of bioethics, palliative care, et cetera. And the VA has become really the center of excellence for interdisciplinary pain management. Eric: And you actually interviewed Eric, right?