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Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

The second piece is getting folks to be successful at restricting their calories, which works well when nutrition education and behavioral counseling strategies are combined—and even better when provided in a group setting. How might primary care physicians coordinate this care in settings with limited specialist access?

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Anxiety in Late Life and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson

GeriPal

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison

GeriPal

I’m originally an ER physician. I’d been doing ER medicine for over a decade when I went back to palliative fellowship. The post Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

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? The one thing that we know is that education alone will not actually deliver behavior change. So I’m going to be called every 20 minutes to go to the ER.

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Dialysis vs Conservative Management for Older Adults: Manju Kurella Tamura, Susan Wong, & Maria Montez-Rath

GeriPal

I felt like more often than not, we erred towards dialysis because there it is. The post Dialysis vs Conservative Management for Older Adults: Manju Kurella Tamura, Susan Wong, & Maria Montez-Rath appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. It’s right there.

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Comics and Humor in Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nathan Gray

GeriPal

He uses comics and other artwork to share his experiences in palliative care and educate others about topics like empathy and communication skills. And a doc over in Spain named Monica Lalanda, who is an ER doc and also a cartoonist, reached out to me and said you don’t have to do this anonymously. That blew my mind.

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

GeriPal

Working with Abe Brody at NYU to do a randomized control trial of an intervention for education, for psychotropic use in end stage dementia patients. Because no hospice will take a chance on her because she has end stage dementia every time she falls, she’s got to go to the er. How do we make this work for patients and families?

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