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

GeriPal

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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250,000 Preventable Deaths Every Year: Why Climate and Health Must Be Funded Together

My Green Doctor

According to the World Health Organization, climate change will cause an additional 250,000 deaths every year between 2030 and 2050. We must transform healthcare into a frontline responder for climate resilience. At My Green Doctor, we help clinics and health professionals build climate resilience from the ground up.

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

GeriPal

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

GeriPal

And then usually what we try and do is in order to make this more feasible, rather than clicking through 2030, predictors for busy clinicians, is perform some type of variable selection so that we can come up with a more simplified model. I don’t know how our patients manage that.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

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. So someone who’s got, let’s say, a psychotic disorder and a substance use disorder, those services are going to be pretty intense case management to help them just manage their life.