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Rethinking Opioid Conversions: Mary Lynn McPherson and Drew Rosielle

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You take their age, their gender, you take their chronic conditions. Really because of the structure and the nature of equianalgesic tables, similar information with simpler math, can easily be presented to our colleagues. We present them like these ratios are linear across all doses. Maybe they have heart failure.

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Why Regular Check-ups Matter: Preventive Care at Mesa Family Physicians

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

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You present your. What does that mean for dealing with chronic conditions and syndromes of aging, their health, does it have an impact? But there have been some studies showing higher rates of chronic conditions. So that’s how. Just how you. Your gender. What do we know about that? Noelle Marie 27:00 A lot.

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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

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And often patients are told there’s no cardiovascular problem, you don’t have heart failure, you’re older, or maybe it’s from another chronic condition or. They see it’s preserved. But another layer I would add to it is also maybe more patient centric. I don’t know.

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Black/African American Caregivers of Older Adults Living with Dementia: Fayron Epps and Karen Moss

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Alex: Sticking with this for a moment here, I remember, Karen, we were fortunate to have Karen Moss here the entire day, and she started off the day giving a Work in Progress presentation to our group who interrupted because that’s what we do in Work in Progress. I told her no one’s ever made it- Karen: It was great. It was great.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

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” And we can offer things, someone presents with a nutritional need, but we can say, ask about, “Do you need grab bars in your shower? ” And then, the health plan can say, “Can you follow-up on this?” Would you be a candidate for adult daycare? Do you have a caregiver in the house who might need?

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HIV, Aging, and Palliative Care: Peter Selwyn and Meredith Greene

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And so the patients who had been admitted there to die, essentially most, if not all, got better and HIV became much more of a chronic condition. Some age related chronic conditions seem to develop earlier in people with HIV and also geriatric syndromes can be common even amongst people in their 50s.