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Prevention of Dementia: Kristine Yaffe

GeriPal

The beautiful thing about it, it’s more than just having a career development award; it’s a community of aging researchers. One of the highlights really is the networking and the community that it fosters and highlighted, in some ways, by the meeting, which of course you often lead the sing along at. I agree with you.

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

Mesa Family Physician

However, at Mesa Family Physicians , we believe that preventive healthcare is the cornerstone of long-term wellness for our Mesa, Arizona community. Arizona’s climate and lifestyle present specific health considerations that our Mesa-based medical professionals are specially trained to address.

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On Racism & Ageism: Ramona Rhodes, Sharon Brangman, Tim Farrell, and Nancy Lundebjerg

GeriPal

Can you give us some examples, even the ones you mentioned in the paper, about how some of these structural races, like these common things that may occur in the hospital or in the clinics that we use, and we may not even think about? You go into this community, perform this study, you leave. Ramona: Glomerular Filtration Raterate.

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

GeriPal

I, for example, had one patient, I remember during my fellowship, I was in geriatrics clinic and had a very well read patient who came in and was reading a New York Times article, I think in the well section at one point. Alex 16:45 That really rings true with my clinical experience. And I know I do primarily inpatient work.

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GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundeberg and Annie Medina-Walpole

GeriPal

It always has clinical relevance to practice today. So I’m going to ask Eric and Ken to identify their favorite topic that they’ve covered to discuss any of the updates that they’re thinking that can be relevant to clinical care of older people. Nancy 17:10 So there’s a follow up. Ken 26:02 Okay.

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

GeriPal

We also explored several questions with them, including how to define trauma, its prevalence in older adults, the impact of past traumatic experiences, the potential triggers of trauma screening, and the application of trauma-informed principles in clinical practice. Ashwin 18:08 These are things that we often see from a clinical standpoint.

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Cachexia and Anorexia in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Eduardo Bruera

GeriPal

We need this type of push to make us feel that we are part of a community and we are part of a movement and things are changing because we are around. Thank you for that gift to our community and to the patients. I am very much into the fact that when you are really hypogonadic, clinically hypogonadic, I try to prescribe testosterone.

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