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Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

The second piece is getting folks to be successful at restricting their calories, which works well when nutrition education and behavioral counseling strategies are combined—and even better when provided in a group setting. What practical strategies would you recommend for implementing resistance training in community or home-based settings?

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Updates in ID and Nephrology: Lona Mody, Rasheeda Hall, Devika Nair, Sonali Advani

GeriPal

There’s a team now with them behind them making sure that they stay safe and held in our communities. And they should be forced by doing research, followed by translating research into practice and continued education of a wide variety of individuals to then care for our aging population. One of your articles addresses that.

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New Technologies and 3D Imaging — “The Virtual Microscope”

CDOCS

Three technologies in particular &mdash; magnification/illumination, 2D digital imaging, and 3D CBCT imaging have improved my diagnostic, patient-education and clinical skills to help to keep our practice ahead of the curve. Some other uses for CBCT are when I sense complicated anatomy, resorption, perforations, or instrument failures.</span></p>

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Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers

GeriPal

After coming out of residency and taking care of lots of complicated older adults as of now, a brand new physician attending, I really needed that team to help me out. Number four, again, structure and process that promotes early mobilization which may or may not require a formal OT and PT consultation. Are they community dwelling?

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Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

GeriPal

When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. And I can only imagine that’s even more complicated in the cancer patient population, where we’re asking them to do so many other things as well.

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

GeriPal

So Carmen and Katie developed an EMS Community Partnership program. They created a seamless link between this Community Partnership program and 911 calls for falls. Eric and I enjoyed talking with Carmen and Katie about this innovative and common sense approach to addressing falls in the community. Word of mouth spread rapidly.

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Episode 275: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 19 – Reframing the Opioid Epidemic: Anti-Racist Praxis, Racial Health Inequities, and Harm Reduction

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Identify realistic solutions to drug policy reform that promote health equity among marginalized communities living in the United States. Screening for substance use and offering connections to treatment and community-based services are important strategies that clinicians can implement in their own practice today.