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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. Distributing intake throughout the day has been shown to enhance muscle synthesis, and targeting 90 g/day provides 1.2 This might look like 3.5

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

GeriPal

What is our role as hospice and palliative care providers in advocating for high-quality hospice care? Eric: We have an exciting podcast episode that stemmed initially from…we were thinking about this from a New Yorker article that came out around the hospice hustle and thinking about, where are we with hospice? Thank you, Anne.

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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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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. And I think the question for our field is, is that because the estimates that we have of GFR based on creatinine provide misrepresentation or an inaccurate representation of someone’s kidney function.

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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. ” Sunita: Honestly, I’d be happy to provide the vocals. And I wonder, because I read that need part a lot in this article.

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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. And so here’s a picture of four healthcare providers behind bars. ” The first healthcare provider said, “I said withdrawal of care.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it. You know, most, most ERs admit, you know, far fewer than 50% of their patients. They go to observation and go home or just get discharged straight from the ER? We looked at reach.