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Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

In an article for Obesity , researchers investigated how to better design lifestyle-based weight loss programs for older adults in order to address muscle and bone health concerns. Likewise, the National Institute on Aging developed a toolkit to help promote safe, effective exercise techniques for old er adults.

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Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison

GeriPal

And I was looking for articles, and I wasn’t seeing as many as I expected. Jenny 04:45 Like, the last article was, like, 10 years ago. Eric 11:13 And, Tyler, that’s why I loved your article at J Gym on bringing music and benefits to patients at the bedside. I’m originally an ER physician.

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

GeriPal

For a deeper diver into these issues, check out some of the following links: Ira’s Stat new article “Hospice care needs saving” GeriPal’s episode on the growing role of private equity in hospice care Acquisitions of Hospice Agencies by Private Equity Firms and Publicly Traded Corporations. Ira: I like the article. Thank you, Anne.

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The Language of Serious Illness: A Podcast with Sunita Puri, Bob Arnold, and Jacqueline Kruser

GeriPal

We’ve invited Jacqueline Kruser and Bob Arnold on this week’s podcast to talk about their recently published JAMA Viewpoint article titled “ Reconsidering the Language of Serious Illness. ” You recently published an article in the New Yorker titled, I can’t even read my own, what was the title again? Of course not.

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Dialysis vs Conservative Management for Older Adults: Manju Kurella Tamura, Susan Wong, & Maria Montez-Rath

GeriPal

Eric 00:13 And, Alex, I am very excited today because there was an awesome article on Annals on conservative management versus dialysis. I felt like more often than not, we erred towards dialysis because there it is. Eric 11:50 I also have to ask, because we will have a link to this article. One of my favorite articles.

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Comics and Humor in Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nathan Gray

GeriPal

And a doc over in Spain named Monica Lalanda, who is an ER doc and also a cartoonist, reached out to me and said you don’t have to do this anonymously. Here’s another clinician saying, “I ignored a patient’s tears and gave a speech about cardiac physiology during a family meeting.” That blew my mind.

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

GeriPal

– @AlexSmithMD Here’s a link to an article about the Palliative Story Exchange. ** This podcast is not CME eligible. And I was interviewing candidates for our clinical fellowship and interviewed Alexis, who had been like family medicine doc before, done all kinds of cool things. Eric 00:18 Throwing us off. Ricky 11:23 Yeah.

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