Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

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.

Management 52

Management Primary Care Physicals Telehealth 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objectives: 1) To measure the frequency of exposure to high-priority DDI among non-elderly community-dwelling non-elderly adults in Québec. DDI exposures were considered incident if the individual was not exposed to a DDI in the year preceding cohort entry. Results: 1) 11.7% (95% CI: 11.5-12.0) Conclusions: One in 8.5

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Primary Care Emergency Room Insurance ER 130

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. The social determinants of health and what community well being was a big part of. those experiencing homelessness).

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 102

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

You know, most, most ERs admit, you know, far fewer than 50% of their patients. They go to observation and go home or just get discharged straight from the ER? So Tammie developed something called EPIC for Emergency medicine, which is a curriculum that was one of the first ways that I think palliative care got spread in our community.

Patient-Centered 78

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 78

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

Usually I don’t put a lot of background on this podcast, but I got to … in November of 2022, Ava Kofman, along with ProPublica, published … well I won’t want to say great, published an article in The New Yorker that I think it was divisive in the hospice and palliative care community. Eric: Great. Now it’s 70%.

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GeriPal

JUNE 23, 2022

So that would be palatable to the community that I could look at, whether we were over-screening those 80 and older. And so what we’re doing, we have an R1 now that we’re using output from CSNET, those simulation modelers, so that we can individualize outcomes for women 75 and older based on their risk and their health.

Screening 100

Screening PCP PCP IT 100

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

What are the structural factors and individual factors that contribute to homelessness? One of the worst ways is you have a community of people who’ve paid into Social Security their whole life, paid into to support Medicare their whole life, and don’t live long enough to see the fruits of that.

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Mental Health IT Community Individual 124