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The Role of Lifestyle Medicine in Reversing Early Chronic Disease

Edge Family Medicine

Social Connection: Positive relationships and community support improve mental health and resilience. From dietary consultations and exercise plans to stress reduction strategies, we are here to support your journey toward health and longevity. Why Act Now? Early intervention is key to reversing chronic diseases.

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The Power of Words, 16 Years Later

A Country Doctor Writes

Yet, the words we use to interview patients, to document the history and physical examination findings, and to present our thoughts to our patients and to our behavioral health consultants are often extremely unhelpful and sometimes downright insulting to the patient. This is not Orwellian Newspeak; our words can heal, and they can hurt.

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Integrated care for adults with complex needs: opportunities of case management in primary care to improve equity [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

Having more consultation time and establishing a relationship of trust with people helped to address their unmet social needs. Creating community partnerships may help to overcome the limited capacity of case managers in assisting patients in their personal or administrative procedures, e.g. employment, immigration, or housing.

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Impact of Financial Incentives and Department Size on Scholarly Activity Output [Original Research]

Annals of Family Medicine

It has the unique ability to answer questions about health care outcomes and use those insights to impact communities. PURPOSE Family medicine research is essential to improving population health. METHODS Questions included targeted demographic variables, institutional incentives, and family medicine department scholarly output.

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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

GeriPal

Her most recent book is Dementia Friendly Communities: why we need them and how we can create them . He wrote a book titled “ Psychiatric consultation in long term care ” that has a strengths based approach to staging dementia (how cool is that). And that’s why we need this community support, I think. Transcript.

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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. They know how to manage a lot of these back at home and in the community, so giving them that sense of control even towards the end is I think hugely important.

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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. What can we do as a community?

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