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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

GPs Improve Chronic Disease Management We live in a world of aging populations, with rising chronic diseases, multimorbidity, and polypharmacy. All of that is especially important for disadvantaged individuals with more risk factors, more chronic diseases, more medications, and lower health literacy.

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

GeriPal

And again, if you were to go to, you know, AIDS in terms of transmission is primarily a sexually transmitted disease of young adults, which is why it presented the way it did in the pre treatment era, really all over the world. Older adults may not have received AIDS education. Peter 14:48 So it’s completely shifted.