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Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

Likewise, the National Institute on Aging developed a toolkit to help promote safe, effective exercise techniques for old er adults. Pertinent information includes the patient’s food intake, physical activity, medication history, significant medical events, stress, and sleep.

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CDC Proposes Updating Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids, Warning Against Continued Misapplication

FDA Law

Proposed 2022 CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids, 87 Fed. et al, CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids-United States, 2022, CDC. CDC Clinical Practice Guideline, 10. (We blogged on the final 2016 guideline here on March 17, 2016). 7,838 (Feb. 10, 2022); Dowell, Deborah, MD.,

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Dialysis vs Conservative Management for Older Adults: Manju Kurella Tamura, Susan Wong, & Maria Montez-Rath

GeriPal

About half of patients who are over the age of 65 start dialysis with a GFR of over 9, which is sort of the level below which we have clinical trial evidence for suggesting that there may not be a benefit to starting at that level of GFR. I felt like more often than not, we erred towards dialysis because there it is. It’s easy.

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Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison

GeriPal

I’m originally an ER physician. I’d been doing ER medicine for over a decade when I went back to palliative fellowship. Theresa 28:12 In 20 years, I have once seen somebody deliberately choose a song that was so traumatic, I had to actually put in my very first adverse event report. At a standstill in rooms.

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

GeriPal

It’s that mixture of intimacy and vulnerability, of shared clinical experiences, that fosters a sense of belonging. We definitely draw on the sciences, on biomedical science, on clinical trials, on pharmaceutical design and all sorts of things like that. There’s something magical that happens in small group storytelling.

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The Language of Serious Illness: A Podcast with Sunita Puri, Bob Arnold, and Jacqueline Kruser

GeriPal

We need to strike it from our vocabulary and leave sort of a gap in the clinical vernacular about how we talk about life-sustaining treatment. In the same way that no one’s going to fight you or no one’s going to say, yes, do that colonoscopy because George Clooney did it on ER. And that person came back to life.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

I would talk about this, except I was a clinician, and I’m seeing these folks in the hospital and in clinic. The journal section’s requirements are the same as for a clinical investigation. Folks who were first homeless after 50, there was an event, and usually those events could be described in one of four categories.