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Researchers Propose Solutions to Improve GLP-1 RA Access

Physician's Weekly

Other Persistent Barriers & Potential Solutions In another article not presented at the meeting, Stephanie W. Healthcare Professionals Among healthcare professionals, potential barriers include lack of education, safety concerns, and obesity stigma/weight bias. They published their insights in Nature Medicine.

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

GeriPal

If you want to take a deeper dive into this subject and read some of the articles we discussed in the podcast, check out the following: Hearing Loss: Effect on Hospice and Palliative Care Through the Eyes of Practitioners. COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. Five big manufacturers.

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

GeriPal

I could go on and on, but listen to the podcast instead and for a deeper dive, take a look at the following articles and studies: Gabapentin in the Perioperative setting: Prolonged use of newly prescribed gabapentin after surgery. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2022 Perioperative Gabapentin Use in Older AdultsRevisiting Multimodal Pain Management JAMA IM.

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Psilocybin in Serious Illness: James Downar, Ali John Zarrabi and Margaret Ross

GeriPal

And it kind of made its way into medicine probably around, I’m going to say the 50s after there was a fairly interesting Time Life article that was published. And when that article went to print, it just went ballistic. Gordon Alwasa. Am I saying that right? I always get. So I can say anything I want.

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Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold

GeriPal

Start by reading this article by Sean Morrison, Diane Meier, and Bob Arnold in JAMA , and this response from Rebecca Sudore, Susan Hickman, and Anne Walling. The challenge is not that people made decisions differently, and it was difficult, the challenge was the healthcare professionals who said, “This is not working for me.

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Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy

GeriPal

And on that, I found a link to this article by Rick Moody called Elders in Climate Change, No Excuses, in which he argues that elders are the group that benefited most from the massive consumption of fossil fuels in the post World War II eras. What’s our role in changing the healthcare system, in our own healthcare system.