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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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Finding the Right Clinic: A Guide to Quality Care

Plum Health

This guide will help you understand the different types of clinics and services they offer, so you can make an informed decision about where to seek medical care. Regular visits to a primary care clinic can make a world of difference in your overall health. But when should you consider visiting an urgent care clinic?

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When to Go to Urgent Care for a Sore Throat: How Can Urgent Care Help?

Doctor On Demand

Most sore throats heal on their own, but severe cases may require urgent care. Learn more about which symptoms mean you should go to urgent care or the ER, as well as when to use telehealth or see a primary care doctor. This is a serious sign of airway obstruction and requires immediate care.

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

GeriPal

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. And that was a common experience I had in my psychiatry training, was being called to the ER to see someone who’d come in with panic. And so bathe is an acronym.

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How to discuss stopping screening: Mara Schonberg

GeriPal

And that’s another huge source of data and that’s the data that generally informs the USPSTF and other guidelines. And that’s why I want women to have an informed decision. And so we did learn in that study that even… Here we were trying to take the burden off primary care doctors. Mara: Exactly.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

What is unique about the practice of palliative care for people experiencing homelessness? We discuss the principles of harm reduction, social determinants of health, and trauma informed care. We have world class primary care, cancer care, palliative care. And so the metrics kind of spoke for itself.

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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. And so how do we think about palliative care in those patients? They go to observation and go home or just get discharged straight from the ER? The emergency physician knows it’s not new information. That’s not news to us.