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Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary Diabetes is common. 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 yet we’re also in a different place in diabetes monitoring and management. Goldilocks zone). Welcome back, Alex.

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Finding the Right Clinic: A Guide to Quality Care

Plum Health

These services go beyond treating illnesses; they aim to keep you healthy in the first place. Non-life-threatening illnesses often demand quick relief options. Urgent care clinics are ideal for treating illnesses like the flu, strep throat, or severe colds. Your insights could help someone else in their healthcare journey!

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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

GeriPal

Eric 00:27 So we’re going to be talking about making the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease in a primary care setting, not specialty care, but maybe we could talk a little bit about that. How much should it change how we think about making a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease in primary care? Great to be back. Absolutely.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

Eric: And Alex, we’re going to be talking about substance use disorder and serious illness and aging, with three amazing experts. Eric: So, before we jump into the topic of substance use disorder in aging and serious illness, I think someone has a song request. Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric Widera.

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Artificial Intelligence: Charlotta Lindvall, Matt DeCamp, Sei Lee

GeriPal

Now actually suggesting perhaps that you missed a diagnosis that you should have considered? Because the in serious illness care and care for older adults, their care is often very complex. And even just, so we just had a podcast on diabetes and just the reams of data that you can be getting from continuous glucose monitoring.

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

GeriPal

Eric 01:04 So we’re going to be talking about transgender health in older adults and those with serious illness. Is that because they have higher rates of chronic conditions like diabetes, coronary disease, tobacco use, things like that, or is there something else that’s going on? And great to meet Jace on here.

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Bisphosphonates for Osteoporosis: Podcast with James Deardorff and Sei Lee

GeriPal

And so many older adults with diagnosis of osteoporosis have never received any therapy for it. These were clinical trials involving postmenopausal women with a diagnosis of osteoporosis, based on either an existing vertebral fracture or a bone mineral at the density T-score of less than negative 2.5, Alex: Thanks.

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