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

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When I’m on nursing home call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar value. 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. How high is too high? Should considerations differ for people with dementia?

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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

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We were never going to have all the geriatricians that folks had forecast, whether it was 25,000 in 2025 or 30,000 in 2030, we were never going to get there. ” And I said to her, well, they had a geriatric nurse practitioner. And he asked me questions like, “Why is this patient in bed?