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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. Likewise, the National Institute on Aging developed a toolkit to help promote safe, effective exercise techniques for old er adults.

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

GeriPal

Summary Transcript CME Summary We recently published a podcast on palliative care for kidney failure, focusing on conservative kidney management. Today we’re going to focus upstream on the decision to initiate dialysis vs conservative kidney management. For example, with peritoneal dialysis and conservative management.

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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. And we’re.

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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? It was like this patient is on hospice and call the case manager to figure out how the patient ended up here. Corita 10:59 No, it was rather simple. No, no, no.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

Just out of fellowship, Naheed built a palliative care program for homeless persons called the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless (PEACH) Program. He’s the founder and leader of the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless program in Toronto, Palliative care physician at St. Naheed 07:33 Yeah. Naheed 15:56 2014.

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

GeriPal

How many patients is my hospice nurse case manager responsible for on any given day? Management, it’s hard. 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. Are you going to see a doctor are? Who sees you? How is that done?

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