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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. How might primary care physicians coordinate this care in settings with limited specialist access?

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Exposure to high-priority drug-drug interactions among non-elderly adults in Quebec: a cohort study [Prescribing and pharmacotherapeutics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Prescribing is the most-used intervention in primary care, and most prescriptions are issued in primary care. Harmful prescription drug-drug interactions (DDI) arise when the effects of one drug change the effect of another drug and increase the risk for an adverse event, including therapeutic failure.

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CDC Proposes Updating Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids, Warning Against Continued Misapplication

FDA Law Blog

As CDC notes in the 2022 proposed guideline, the 2016 guideline provided twelve recommendations for primary care clinicians who prescribe opioids for chronic pain in outpatient settings. ER/LA opioids should be “reserved for severe, continuous pain.”. 2016 Guideline. CDC Clinical Practice Guideline, 10. Recommendation 4. .

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

GeriPal

Alex 00:23 All right, first, we’re welcoming back Ricky Le it er, who’s a palliative care doc at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and is co-founder of the Palliative Story Exchange. And I turned to my dad and I said, I think mom needs palliative care.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. We have world class primary care, cancer care, palliative care. The peach program and our mobile palliative care program for people experiencing structural vulnerabilities. And we celebrate that when that happens.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome for the first time, guest Bill Ander e ch, who’s a primary care internist and senior scholar in Sutter Health’s program in M edicine and Human Values, a program that he co-founded with a former UCSF faculty member, Al Johnson. So in some ways, it was an iatrogenic event.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

Sometime after the age of 50, we could identify an event where the folks who were first homeless before 50, there wasn’t a clear crisis that precipitated it. Folks who were first homeless after 50, there was an event, and usually those events could be described in one of four categories. But they were poor, really poor.