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Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

A recent study offers recommendations on how to balance weight loss goals and bone health concerns in weight management programs for older adults. If low bone density is present, it’s often treated alongside a weight loss program. Two of the researchers, Kacey Chae, MD , and Kristen M.

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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

GeriPal

Incontinence and avoiding issues can present in an older individual, in some cases, just like they do a younger person. But then there is incontinence, which is the same term, same word, but actually presents as a geriatric syndrome. We think of it really as a kind of a management tool as well. George 19:37 Exactly, exactly.

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

But the thing that really motivates me is seeing, you know, and trying to manage later stage, you know, we can call them complications of people who haven’t had a diagnosis are now really in, you know, a world of complexity around other conditions, around managing life and managing practical things.

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Updates in ID and Nephrology: Lona Mody, Rasheeda Hall, Devika Nair, Sonali Advani

GeriPal

There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations. And so to develop that equation, they use the cohort of individuals and their data, their blood samples, creatine and other physical attributes. That’s a typical person I send cystatin C’s on.

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Why Regular Check-ups Matter: Preventive Care at Mesa Family Physicians

Mesa Family Physician

The Hidden Benefits of Regular Check-ups You Might Be Missing Many residents of Mesa and the surrounding Arizona communities don’t realize that preventive care goes far beyond just “checking the box” for your annual physical.

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Fever FAQs (contd.)- Signs, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment

Rao Doctor

When assessing a fever, we doctors employ a systematic approach to ensure accurate diagnosis and effective management. Fever can present alongside other symptoms, such as chills and fatigue, which may help in diagnosing the underlying cause. What are the Management and Treatment Options in a case of fever?

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

GeriPal

I have so many questions, and I promise we’re going to get to the management of anxiety and serious illness. So it tends to be future oriented and tends to show up as a physical sensation in our body. But it’s this physical sensation that comes along with these ideations. Brianna 00:41 Thanks. Great to be here.

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