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Nutrition On A Budget: Eating Healthy With Local, Seasonal Produce

Center for Family Medicine

If the food is out of budget, families will struggle to get a healthy supply of vitamins and minerals. This increases the risk of chronic disease or vitamin deficiencies in children and adults. Choosing local and seasonal produce can help families meet simple nutritional needs. Some even provide delivery.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

Summary Transcript CME Summary Many older adults lose decision-making capacity during serious illnesses, and a significant percentage lack family or friends to assist with decisions. But you worry that the advance directive does not provide enough guidance for the specific decision at Yael Jo, do you. They have an advance directive.

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

GeriPal

Has the usual collection of chronic diseases, paroxysmal afib, hypertension, chronic kidney disease, adult diabetes, a little anemia, a little edema, a little mild cognitive impairment. A pill organizer, having family. It’s one of my old, old patients. Or mitigating the contribution from heart failure itself.

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

GeriPal

Administration on Aging connecting you to services for older adults and their families California’s Master Plan for Aging New York’s Master Plan for Aging Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

JAGS Hospital-at-Home Interventions vs In-Hospital Stay for Patients With Chronic Disease Who Present to the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. And we would provide ongoing longitudinal care to them in the home, much like the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors programs, and other programs like that.

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What RFK Jr. Isn’t Talking About: How To Make Vaccines Safer

Physician's Weekly

At the time they were getting out of the vaccine business, finding it less risky and more profitable to produce drugs for chronic diseases. As of June 5, a patient group she leads had provided $1.2 It is an editorially independent program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, which is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.