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Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

If low bone density is present, it’s often treated alongside a weight loss program. Interventions should also take into account a patient’s motivation and preferences, any comorbidities they have, and their current diet and physical activity levels. Two of the researchers, Kacey Chae, MD , and Kristen M.

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Prevention of Dementia: Kristine Yaffe

GeriPal

Certainly education, quality of education is extremely important. Physical activity is a big one. Some of them, like education, definitely social determinants of health. If we focused on prevention, from a public health standpoint, we would achieve far more than spending millions billions on treatment.

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Episode 120: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 1 – Racism, Police Violence, and Health

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Trainees may use this foundation to question how this might impact their medical education and think about this educational legacy may be reformed through curricular and structural changes at their institutions.

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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

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

GeriPal

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? Anne: It’s psychological and physical, and there’s a lot of work to take that apart. I think Ab sees that a lot.

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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. There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations.

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

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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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