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Aging and Population Health – PT for Boomers – and beyond

WEBI’ve been thinking for some time now (starting during PT school, because of my father and grandfather getting older) about the aging population – including illness, …

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Shared Decision-Making – a way to improve satisfaction, …

WEBEvery PT has experienced it. The patient who isn’t improving between sessions (or even losing the gains made during your previous session). “Are you doing …

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Part I: “Copious” Therapy in Nursing Homes – Financial Gain or …

WEBDisclaimer before I go further – I work at a wonderful place that listens to its therapists’ recommendations regarding level of minutes. They respect our professional …

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Blog – PT for Boomers – and beyond

WEBThe Class of 2022 has their Geriatrics final tomorrow, and one of the topics on it is stereotypes and ageism. In today’s Sacramento Bee, there is an article “Gold River …

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Professionalism and Pioneering in PT – PT for Boomers – and beyond

WEBBecause of some things at work and at home, I’ve taken a hiatus of sorts from posting, but am working on new posts, ideas, and reviews. I got the new PTJ/PTIM …

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Guidelines for falls prevention – updated – PT for Boomers – and …

WEBThis is not in pubmed as of this morning, but the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) and the British Geriatric Society (BGS) published an update to the 2001 fall …

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Clinical reflections – PT for Boomers – and beyond

WEBI am clinical faculty for a local PT program for their ICE (Integrated Clinical Education). During the a student evaluation last month, one of my students recommended that I …

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Caregiver Burnout – PT for Boomers – and beyond

WEBAre you asking about it? You might want to, whether the caregiver is your patient, or the caregiver is the family of the patient. Check out the recent NPR article …

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EnhanceFitness – PT for Boomers – and beyond

WEBI am posting a pdf copy of the poster of the research on older adult adherence to group exercise which I presented here at ExPAAC (the abstract is available here; a big thank …

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Prescribing exercise increases physical activity – PT for Boomers – …

WEBFrom Medscape, reporting on an RCT in the December 12th Online First issue of the BMJ: prescribing exercise may increase a woman’s physical activity (PA) …

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