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Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

What practical strategies would you recommend for implementing resistance training in community or home-based settings? For older adults, the YMCA’s Silver Sneakers Program is a fantastic community resource. Many older adults may have limited access to training facilities or experience with resistance training.

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NIH to Fund $10M in Long-Term Health Studies After Ohio Train Disaster

Physician's Weekly

It will support one to three projects that focus on tracking and understanding health issues in the community, CNN reported. Allison also praised the decision to involve the community in shaping the research. She called the NIH news “a complicated mix of emotions,” CNN said. “We We desperately need real medical support.”

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End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane

GeriPal

We’ve invited two death doulas, Jane Euler and John Loughnane (who is also a family doc and palliative care physician), to talk about the role of a doula at the end of life. And then second, I was someone who was a Parrot Head for years and years and it was just amazing how the community came together. How do you see the light?

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What We Now Know About COVID Prevention and Treatment: A Podcast with Monica Gandhi

GeriPal

Our department chair is always tweeting, and I think there was a fourth shot and then a mild infection in a family member. It’s not only not doing something, people are like wearing them in different ways, and the cloth, all the leakage on the sides and same with surgical, but it actually can inhibit human communication.