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What Are the Most Common Preventive Services? A Complete Guide

Mesa Family Physician

At Mesa Family Physicians, we believe that preventing illness is always better than treating it. Understanding Preventive Health Services: The Foundation of Wellness Preventive health services encompass medical care specifically designed to prevent illnesses, detect conditions early, and promote overall wellness.

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Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

GeriPal

And yet we’re also in a different place in diabetes monitoring and management. And we invited Tamryn Gray from the Dana Farber joins us to ask insightful questions, including: What blood sugar range should we target for patients in the nursing home or hospice? Listen in to learn more! Eric: And Alex, we’ve got a full house today.

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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

GeriPal

On today’s podcast we talk with three experts on buprenorphine on why, when, and how to use it in serious illness. Adapting Palliative Care Skills to Provide Substance Use Disorder Treatment to Patients With Serious Illness . Management of chronic pain in the elderly: focus on transdermal buprenorphine. Transcript.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. Who do we have with us today? Jessie, welcome back to GeriPal.

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Normalcy, Introspection, & the Experience of Serious Illness: Bill Gardner, Juliet Jacobsen, and Brad Stuart

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary How do people react when they hear they have a serious illness? And some people, in addition or instead, engage in deep introspection on how to make meaning or live with or understand this experience of serious illness. Shock, “like a car is rushing straight at me” (says Bill Gardner on our podcast).

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Avoiding the Uncanny Valley in Serious Illness Communication: Josh Briscoe

GeriPal

Coming off as rote and scripted during a serious illness conversation can have a similar off-putting impact on patients and families. One bump is just the classic pitfalls we often talk about in serious illness communication: being very jargony, very information focused, and just providing information. It flows very well. Eric: Yeah.

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life.