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Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

Likewise, the National Institute on Aging developed a toolkit to help promote safe, effective exercise techniques for old er adults. Given practical constraints in many healthcare settings, who are the minimum essential team members for multidisciplinary management of weight loss in older adults?

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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. So we created these heat maps where you could see for each individual what actually happened in the days and you. And that biases them because they’re immortal in a sense, until that event happens. Is it delirium from something else?

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The Language of Serious Illness: A Podcast with Sunita Puri, Bob Arnold, and Jacqueline Kruser

GeriPal

In the same way that no one’s going to fight you or no one’s going to say, yes, do that colonoscopy because George Clooney did it on ER. But I think what I didn’t know was that when somebody makes a decision to get to a certain event that the work isn’t done then. And that person came back to life.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. You know, we found that 64% of the people we cared for never went to the hospital or ER.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

What are the structural factors and individual factors that contribute to homelessness? ” On that grand rounds, you differentiated structural factors from … I forget what the word was, individual- Margot: Individual risk factors. Why do we say “over 50” is “older” for homeless persons, why not 65? Margot: After 50.