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

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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). This is Eric Widera.

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Power to the Patient with Patient Generated Health Data

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Another patient shared their journey with diabetes. When they were prescribed a continuous glucose meter and insulin pump, use of technology as part of their prescribed treatment plan improved both their physical and mental health dramatically and allowed them to go from 11 medications to just insulin.

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

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It’s just that they look like a big bmI, but they lost 15, 2030 pounds. But what I tell them is, keep yourself physically active. Keep yourself physically as active as possible. If possible, get yourself a little fitbit or a little watch and count your steps, and try to keep yourself physically active.

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