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Managing High Blood Pressure with Medication and Lifestyle

Imperial Center Family Medicine

Effective blood pressure management requires taking the appropriate medicine as prescribed by a healthcare professional and implementing appropriate lifestyle changes. However, the correct treatment plan can help you manage your blood pressure and reduce complications. Aim for at least 2.5

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Managing High Blood Pressure with Medication and Lifestyle

Imperial Center Family Medicine

Effective blood pressure management requires taking the appropriate medicine as prescribed by a healthcare professional and implementing appropriate lifestyle changes. However, the correct treatment plan can help you manage your blood pressure and reduce complications. Aim for at least 2.5

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Dysphagia Revisited: A Podcast with Raele Donetha Robison and Nicole Rogus-Pulia

GeriPal

We also talk about the importance of a proactive approach to involving speech-language pathologists in the care of individuals early on with neurodegenerative diseases like dementia and ALS. So as you mentioned, dementia, there’s some research that show about 86% or 93% of those individuals will get that. Raele: Yes, of course.

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What You Should Know About Radiation Oncology: Anish Butala, Emily Martin and Evie Kalmar

GeriPal

The physics and mathematics that went into radiation therapy planning. And as it speaks to this podcast, I found that radiation oncology also offered me the ability to treat patients with palliative intent treatment, both adults and children, and allows me to sort of treat every area of the body and focuses on anatomy.

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

GeriPal

I think some of that is from some of my thinking about maybe what I can potentially think about with the individual to support them. You all know from palliative care is a huge step in terms of a “treatment.” And so really thinking about people’s individual experiences, what might help for them. Thomas: Yeah.

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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

GeriPal

They look at the signs and symptoms, they do a physical exam, maybe some lab tests or some imaging. And if the doctors still come up with different diagnoses or perceptions of what’s happening with the patient and or treatment plans, that’s all on them. Try to really understand what’s happening.

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Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley

GeriPal

So how physically active the patient is, how much time they spend awake, how much they’re eating, how much care they need, that type of thing. This is a particularly interesting topic because we know that individuals with dementia have a high rate of entering nursing home. Eric 05:50 Yeah. What’s in it again?

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