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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. In the past several years, telehealth has opened tremendous opportunities to improve access to care.

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Green Practice News: April 2025

My Green Doctor

Behavior Change Happens in the Exam Room Unlike government agencies or corporations, healthcare professionals speak directly to individuals in a trusted, one-on-one setting. Use My Green Doctor’s Free Patient Education Resources Download and display environmental health brochures in your waiting room. of total U.S.

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Infectious Disease Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Initial Certification and Training Data in Infectious Disease* The Infectious Disease Board also reviewed new data from the National Resident Matching Program, Board Eligibility data, outcomes for candidates requiring retraining, faculty pathway pass rates and approved Advancing Innovation in Residency Education programs in infectious disease.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

Kate: Yeah, some of the thoughts I’ve had in thinking about this: we did not require communication, training and education of the clinicians. Eric: I think about it as the first one to address individuals’ curative therapy. We started pre-pandemic and very quickly it went to telehealth, so it was primarily telehealth.

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GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundeberg and Annie Medina-Walpole

GeriPal

Annie 02:31 So if you go to the A G S meeting every year, you know that this group of three individuals comprises the AGS literature update. But in spite of that, it is a lot of work for three individuals to pull all this together. So that this is not something that might affect the individual clinician patient decision.

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Plenary Abstracts at AAHPM/HPNA: Yael Schenker, Na Ouyang, Marie Bakitas

GeriPal

And so we worked closely with a community advisory group who, through focus groups, told us how it was that black and white individuals with serious illness had wanted to be treated. The black individuals wanted to have a separate one from the white individuals. So their caregivers did focus groups. Our consultation.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

Caroline: Again, just further educating on the front lines and families in particular, I think is really important as well as these policy implications. We got rid of all these psychotropic medications and this person … one individual had had a vascular dementia. It’s way more complex than an educational program.