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Exploring the Telehealth Experiences of Service Users with Mental-Physical Multimorbidity during the COVID-19 pandemic [Multimorbidity]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context The COVID-19 pandemic led to significant transformations in health care delivery, notably in the shift towards telehealth. mental-physical multimorbidity). Objective To explore the telehealth experiences of adults with mental-physical multimorbidity during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

Weight loss programs for older adults also benefit from co-management by an interdisciplinary team that may include a geriatrician, an obesity medicine specialist, an endocrinologist, a registered dietitian, a bone metabolism specialist, a physical therapist and an exercise physiologist.

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How can you improve your relationship with food?

Vida Family Medicine

These behaviors can be physically and psychologically harmful even if the person does not meet full criteria for being diagnosed with an eating disorder. Food is an important part of life- for our physical health, mental health, and our social well being and enjoyment of life.

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Telehealth vs In-Person Palliative Care: A Podcast with Joseph Greer, Lynn Flint, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson

GeriPal

In the other corner, we have the young upstart, able to reach patients across vast distances when delivering palliative care, all in the comfort of wearing pajamas, we have telehealth delivered palliative care. Eric 01:08 On the other, we have the young upstart telehealth delivered palliative care. Consultations versus telehealth.

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

Doctor On Demand

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. When to use telehealth for a sore throat Telehealth offers a convenient way to treat a sore throat and also provides guidance when you’re unsure if you need in-person care.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

Tom: So we did this study because patients who go through the stem cell transplant process face a lot of misery in terms of physical symptoms, psychological distress, anxiety, depression, and even a risk of PTSD afterwards, sort of like a medical trauma, you might think of it. I’m going to go to stem cell transplants. Eric: Okay.

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GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundeberg and Annie Medina-Walpole

GeriPal

Annie 02:31 So if you go to the A G S meeting every year, you know that this group of three individuals comprises the AGS literature update. But in spite of that, it is a lot of work for three individuals to pull all this together. So that this is not something that might affect the individual clinician patient decision.

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