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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

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The intervention involved mailing medication-specific brochures to patients before their primary care appointments (click here for the brochure ). So acupuncture, Tai Chi, Yoga, mindfulness and physical therapy, chiropractor. The results showed a modest but significant increase in deprescribing rates among the intervention group.

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

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And one of the parts of that was actually doing physicals for the students and putting them in job placements. He was an otolaryngologist and epidemiology person too, might have an appointment in geriatrics too. I don’t see myself in that world.” Nick: And we saw hearing loss in a significant number of our kids.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

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And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. They want you to recognize their pain, not just their physical pain, but their trauma that they’ve experienced as a, as a, as a result of being on the streets. How do you actually physically find them if that’s the case?

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Demystifying the Role of HHS and ASPE in Guiding Federal Aging Policy and Priorities with Dr. Tisamarie Sherry

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On today today’s podcast, we are joined by guest host and UCSF geriatrician Ashwin Kotwal as we welcome Dr. Tisamarie Sherry (Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Behavioral Health, Disability, and Aging Policy (BHDAP) , appointed by the Biden administration). difficile infections.

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GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundeberg and Annie Medina-Walpole

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So if you haven’t been to this event, there is a literature review where we. So Annie Since I was appointed timekeeper. I believe the age range was over 80 hospitalized patients and showed that relatively light level physical activity, often with weights, improved hospital outcomes. It’s okay. Let’s go back.

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Surgical Communication: A Podcast with Gretchen Schwarze, Justin Clapp and Alexis Colley

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Well, there’s this descriptive phase where there’s a verbal and physical examination and the conditions discussed, and then, procedures are discussed. But I think it’s artificial, as we’ve already shown in this conversation, to talk about that as a isolated event.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

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That’s a lot of appointments that we have to account for over time. We did not just rely on a physical symptom measure, which many of our colleagues are doing. It’s not just about physical symptom management. You sort of had a month after all of those events. Back at that capacity question, right?