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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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Why Regular Check-ups Matter: Preventive Care at Mesa Family Physicians

Mesa Family Physician

Arizona’s climate and lifestyle present specific health considerations that our Mesa-based medical professionals are specially trained to address. At Mesa Family Physicians, we understand the demands on your time and offer flexible scheduling options to accommodate busy professionals.

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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

GeriPal

He was describing his, like, 87 year old grandma who was placed on a low salt diabetic diet. So I have a two and a half year old, and during my last pregnancy, I had gestational diabetes. People’s goals are often much more than, you know, perfect management or heart failure, even living as long as possible. And this is an.

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

GeriPal

You present your. 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? One is to seek additional training because the standards of care from wpath, which literally outlines how you would manage hormones, is there.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

And so there’s complexity in Understanding how each state manages this. So on the clinical side, people are really focused on how long do they have to be on the ventilator and managing that. So you mentioned the burden of chronic multimorbidity and sort of flogging through the diabetes and the hypertension.

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Cachexia and Anorexia in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Eduardo Bruera

GeriPal

Alex 00:20 Today we’re delighted and honored to welcome Eduardo Bruera, who is one of the biggest symptom management gurus, if not the biggest symptom management guru in palliative medicine. If the patient has a spectacular response to HIV management or the cancer treatment, then the main factors are removed.

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Amyloid Antibodies and the Role of the Geriatrician: Nate Chin, Sharon Brangman, and Jason Karlawish

GeriPal

We invited three geriatricians and memory care doctors, Nate Chin, Sharon Brangman, and Jason Karlawish, to talk about this question and many others swirling around on how to safely prescribe these drugs and manage patients on them (like what to do about anticoagulation). And that could extend beyond 18 months. We just don’t know that.