Edge Family Medicine

APRIL 10, 2025

Establishing a long-term relationship with a primary care provider can make a profound difference in how effectively your health is managed over time. Why Primary Care Relationships Matter A trusted PCP gets to know you — not just your chart. Preventive Care that Works Primary care is your first line of defense.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Relationship PCP PCP 130

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

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.

Primary Care 97

Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 97

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

After discussing screening options for substance use disorder, we go on to talk about both the treatments for it and the issues that arise. Jessie Merlin is an addiction and palliative care physician, and professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. Maybe we’ll get to talking about that today. Jessie: Thank you.

Illness 137

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 137

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. Practical strategies to overcome these barriers and enhance care. We also take a dive into these 2 articles that Connie first authored: Palliative care in nursing homes: A qualitative study on referral criteria and implications for research and practice.

Nurse Practitioner 78

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

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. There’s really no added extra resource or time that the coordinators really need to put to doing the screening, themselves.

Patient-Centered 130

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 130

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Same thing with kind of medication management. So one of the big pieces of this is that idea of a referral at a second time when they’re less overwhelmed and stressed to figure out what happened. In addition to the grab bars, we have also helped train the EMS professionals in different lenses about screening.

Community 116

Community Transportation IT PCP 116

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Is there a screening tool that we can use, or just questions that you ask older adults around driving safety? We and many others have tried to come up with a short, validated screening tool. And the primary care provider had assumed he was no longer driving, I think. “How are things going?”

Family 102

Family IT Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

So we looked at hospital referral regions, and we looked at high- and low- intensity regions. Ruth: Very strong odor, devoid of furniture, broken screens … Eric: So it was the physical environment and … Ruth: Physical environment. Eric: … there was care processes. It improves symptom management.

Nurse Practitioner 60

Nurse Practitioner Hospital Family Families 60

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

And the thought of a huge number of our patients who had really come to rely on being able to do their visits from home or from a place that was close to home and getting medications that they’ve really come to rely on for symptom management was just really kind of terrifying for us and for them. It may have come to a care manager.

Telemedicine 73

Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73