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

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And yet we’re also in a different place in diabetes monitoring and management. AlexSmithMD Additional Links: – Fingerstick monitoring in VA nursing homes (too common!) – Improving diabetes management in hospice – Continuous Glucose Monitoring complicating end of life care Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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

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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? There’s something.

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Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy

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Nursing’s had a problem getting it there, and we may get there at some point, but medicine is working on that, and there’s an organization called Global Consortium for Climate and Health Education that is really leading the way for all healthcare providers for information on how to do that. What does that actually look like?

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Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley

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And so we know that the decision to enter a nursing home is incredibly challenging for families, especially because it often comes with thoughts that they’re, like, abandoning their loved one, really. So it’s not just like the patient or the family, but it’s also the healthcare system.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

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They found that between 2017 and 2030, they think the percentage of the population that’s 65 and up is going to triple in that 15-year period. A huge portion of that difference in wealth you can trace back to the fact that their families were not able to get into the housing market. Eric: Oh, wow. ” That is a myth.