Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

A recent study offers recommendations on how to balance weight loss goals and bone health concerns in weight management programs for older adults. 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.

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. Consultations versus telehealth.

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

Because often what we hear from patients, “I do a lot of pain management research,” but mood comes up in that a lot, is that, “Oh, I don’t want to talk to my doctor about this. And then the NCCN now has a similar guideline requiring comprehensive distress management for their accreditation in cancer centers.

Mental Health 122

Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Why the field is moving away from prescribing methadone to bupenorphine; how to manage patients prescribed methadone for opioid use disorder who then develop serious and painful illness – should we/can we split up the once daily dosing to achieve better pain control? But that was my take home from Danny’s article.

Patients 72

Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 72

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. And so I tried to get her actually to pain management, and I couldn’t. So basic pain management goals of care conversations.

Referral 78

Referral Nurse Practitioner Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

And to keep it short work for an article. It improves symptom management. Caroline: Certainly, the pandemic has certainly catalyzed the use of telehealth. Because it’s also not just about comfort, because there’s no demonstrable survival or other meaningful benefit for feeding tubes. Ruth: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Nurse Practitioner 60

Nurse Practitioner Hospital Family Families 60