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

Center for Family Medicine

This increases the risk of chronic disease or vitamin deficiencies in children and adults. Even when there are opportunities to purchase fresh food, transportation can be limited. Individuals who eat solely nutrient-dense foods are less likely to have chronic diseases like diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and certain cancers.

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The Physicians Foundation Continues Efforts to Tackle Chronic Disease—America’s Leading Cause of Death—by Addressing Drivers of Health

The Physicians Foundation

At a time when chronic diseases remain the number one cause of illness, disability and death nationwide, it is critical for physicians to have the tools needed to support the collective health of individuals across the United States. As the U.S. For more information, visit www.physiciansfoundation.org.

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

GeriPal

Summary Transcript CME Summary When treating heart failure, how do we distinguish between the expanding list of medications recommended for “Guideline Directed Medical Therapy” (GDMT) and what might be considered runaway polypharmacy? He’s a medical director of H ebrew S enior L ife outpatient clinic at Newbridge.

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

GeriPal

These individuals may become unrepresented, meaning they lack the capacity to make a specific medical decision, do not have an advance directive for that decision, and do not have a surrogate to help. We’re going to be talking about the American Geriatric Society position statement on making medical treatment decisions.

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

GeriPal

All of them offer the same array of services, really emphasizing social determinants of health and preventive services like falls prevention, chronic disease, self-management, caregiver training. This includes transportation, driver’s license, parks, volunteerism, housing, and of course health and human services.

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

Physician's Weekly

In the medical odyssey that followed, she suffered double vision, chronic nausea, brain fog, and profound weakness. At the time they were getting out of the vaccine business, finding it less risky and more profitable to produce drugs for chronic diseases. Once a rock climber, she became a couch potato. The current U.S.

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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 then did a bunch of work to develop medical criteria, to choose the right patients for hospital-at-home. Annals of Int Med. This is Eric Widera.

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