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Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

Weight loss programs for older adults also benefit from co-management by an interdisciplinary team that may include a geriatrician, an obesity medicine specialist, an endocrinologist, a registered dietitian, a bone metabolism specialist, a physical therapist and an exercise physiologist.

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Episode 392: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 27 – Racial and Gender Health Disparities in Youth Suicide: Part 2

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Additionally, he consults with federal agencies on mental health system design and practices. Dr.  Dr. Simon stresses the importance of educational efforts to dismantle biases and calls for greater research attention to this group. Kevin Simon to continue the conversation on racial and gender health disparities in youth suicide.

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

GeriPal

Number four, again, structure and process that promotes early mobilization which may or may not require a formal OT and PT consultation. Not every hospital or every health system is the same physically or financial incentives or which clinical programs exist and patient demographics. What effect does that have on the bottom line?

Hospital 100
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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

GeriPal

He wrote a book titled “ Psychiatric consultation in long term care ” that has a strengths based approach to staging dementia (how cool is that). Judy Long, MDiv, BCC , palliative care chaplain and educator at UCSF and caregiver. I’m going, well, is there any way to start educating people how to make these things more inclusive?

Community 101
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Updates in ID and Nephrology: Lona Mody, Rasheeda Hall, Devika Nair, Sonali Advani

GeriPal

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. And so to develop that equation, they use the cohort of individuals and their data, their blood samples, creatine and other physical attributes.

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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 so a lot of it’s the education for patients and their care partners, “This is why we’re doing the things we’re doing. Absolutely. Nadine: Yeah.

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

And one of the parts of that was actually doing physicals for the students and putting them in job placements. Nick: More than obesity, more than education, that’s the one that people pay attention to. I don’t see myself in that world.” Nick: And we saw hearing loss in a significant number of our kids. Eric: Yeah.

IT 102