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Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary Diabetes is common. When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. And yet we’re also in a different place in diabetes monitoring and management. Goldilocks zone). Good choice.

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Power to the Patient with Patient Generated Health Data

FDA Law Blog

Using PGHD can help patients manage their own health and can help sponsors develop endpoints for studying impacts of new treatments that matter to patients. Another patient shared their journey with diabetes. As for the future of PGHD, many panelists were asked how they envision use of PGHD in 2030.

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Nurse Practitioners Critical in Treating Older Adults as Ranks of Geriatricians Shrink

Physician's Weekly

Ellen had been diagnosed with vascular dementia, peripheral vascular disease, and Type 2 diabetes. “It’s also often the family member or the person helping to manage them.” . “It’s fine, except this cough I’ve had since junior high,” Ellen said.

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Cachexia and Anorexia in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Eduardo Bruera

GeriPal

Alex 00:20 Today we’re delighted and honored to welcome Eduardo Bruera, who is one of the biggest symptom management gurus, if not the biggest symptom management guru in palliative medicine. It’s just that they look like a big bmI, but they lost 15, 2030 pounds. Who do we have with us today? But their albumin is too.

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