Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

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. In the past several years, telehealth has opened tremendous opportunities to improve access to care. Structured exercise programs can help in both regards.

Management 52

Management Primary Care Physicals Telehealth 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In the other corner, we have the young upstart, able to reach patients across vast distances when delivering palliative care, all in the comfort of wearing pajamas, we have telehealth delivered palliative care. Eric 01:08 On the other, we have the young upstart telehealth delivered palliative care. But watch out! Vicki 02:10 Thank you.

Telehealth 105

Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

We discuss our favorite articles, parody songs, and memories from AGS meetings past, with a little preview of a song for this years meeting. We covered: The first parody song I wrote, for AGS 2018 in Orlando , about this article by Nancy Schoenborn on how to discuss stopping cancer screening. And then I got to choose the first article.

IT 64

IT Hospital Screening Patients 64

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Unfortunately, we lack the financial structures to reimburse psychologists that would incentivize widespread inclusion on palliative care teams. Because we live in the world as it is, not as it should be, Des has helped develop an app ( link to pilot trial hot off the press !) ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

Mental Health 122

Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Do you need to be an addiction medicine trained physician to start such a clinic (no: Sach is not). See Sachs write up about setting up this clinic in JPSM. What is harm reduction and how can we implement it in practice? Who follows the patient once the cancer goes into remission? Who will prescribe the buprenorphine then? Oh, my goodness.

Patients 72

Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 72

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

We’re gonna be talking about three different articles that are gonna be presented Saturday, I believe, at the annual meeting. Three different articles. Another interpretation is that clinicians avoided telling the parents prognosis in order to bolster their ratings of trust and communication quality. Which is it? We’ll see.

Consulting 63

Consulting Community Patient-Centered Families 63

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

We also take a dive into these 2 articles that Connie first authored: Palliative care in nursing homes: A qualitative study on referral criteria and implications for research and practice. How to think about primary and specialized palliative care in this setting. The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. No problem.

Referral 78

Referral Nurse Practitioner Consulting Board-Certified 78