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Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

A recent study offers recommendations on how to balance weight loss goals and bone health concerns in weight management programs for older adults. If low bone density is present, it’s often treated alongside a weight loss program. For older adults, the YMCA’s Silver Sneakers Program is a fantastic community resource.

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How Locum Tenens Fits Into Modern Healthcare Staffing Solutions

Barton Associates

There’s a lot that goes into running a healthcare facility , from managing patient care to ensuring adequate coverage around the clock. As a healthcare facility, your primary focus is on consistently providing the highest-quality services possible to your patients.

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

But the thing that really motivates me is seeing, you know, and trying to manage later stage, you know, we can call them complications of people who haven’t had a diagnosis are now really in, you know, a world of complexity around other conditions, around managing life and managing practical things.

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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

GeriPal

Incontinence and avoiding issues can present in an older individual, in some cases, just like they do a younger person. But then there is incontinence, which is the same term, same word, but actually presents as a geriatric syndrome. We think of it really as a kind of a management tool as well. George 19:37 Exactly, exactly.

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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. There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations. Lona: Absolutely. Eric: Can I touch on the last study? Was there a difference Sonali? Sonali: Absolutely.

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Deprescribing Super Special Part II: Podcast with Elizabeth Bayliss, Ariel Green, and Kevin McConeghy

GeriPal

We used a large online survey panel, the Ipsos Knowledge Panel, and we presented older adults with two vignettes. And after each vignette, we presented seven rationales that a trusted clinician could use to explain why the person should stop taking that medicine. So people could live in the community. ” Ariel: Exactly.

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Rethinking Opioid Conversions: Mary Lynn McPherson and Drew Rosielle

GeriPal

So, Dr. McPherson, as far as I can tell, she’s really the only person in our professional community who in any sort of serious public way said, folks we need to do something about this. So, my idea is, let’s cut out the middle stuff and just present people a simple way of doing it, or at least simpler. Is that right?

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