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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

GeriPal

So acupuncture, Tai Chi, Yoga, mindfulness and physical therapy, chiropractor. I would say it’s probably the most measured physiologic parameter and strangely still one of the least understood, especially in older adults with multiple chronic conditions. They have a lot of chronic conditions. Eric 35:19 Yeah.

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How to Prepare for Your Preventive Care Visit

Mesa Family Physician

Age-appropriate physical examination that typically covers heart, lung, abdominal, skin, neurological, and musculoskeletal assessments. Health risk assessment considering factors like diet, physical activity, sleep patterns, stress levels, tobacco or alcohol use, and other lifestyle elements that significantly impact your health trajectory.

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

GeriPal

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. Another study looking at the benefits of physical rehabilitation in patients with HFpEF. They see it’s preserved. So I think more to come.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. Too many people do because it’s really hard to keep their loved ones at home for the cost, the enormous financial, mental and physical strain for the family. Malaz: 1999, my friend.