Displaying items by tag: division of gerontology geriatrics and palliative care
The unit is designed to provide nursing home residents with the skilled care they need while recovering from COVID-19 in a safe environment.
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Iyer is UAB’s first recipient of the Beeson award.
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Thomas Buford to head the UAB Center for Exercise Medicine as the new director starting Aug. 1, 2020.
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The special unit for COVID-19-positive nursing home residents will help slow disease spread and provide care to this vulnerable population.
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In partnership with community members, researchers at UAB created the first culturally based protocol for patients living with a serious illness or facing end-of-life care.
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Rodney Tucker, M.D., honored for work and care given to patients nearing the end of their lives.
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A program inspired by a doctor who lost her father during the coronavirus pandemic is now being used to help patients who cannot be with loved ones in the hospital.
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To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the palliative care program at UAB, the team and volunteers created a book consisting of essays from health care providers and the loved ones of former patients.
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UAB School of Medicine professor selected for the highest professional distinction for leading academic inventors.
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- comprehensive center for healthy aging
- oneal comprehensive cancer center
- center for aids research
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- division of gerontology geriatrics and palliative care
- department of medicine
- division of infectious diseases
Community members from Beaufort, South Carolina, trained palliative care physicians on how to have culturally appropriate conversations with their patients based on their backgrounds and ethnicities.
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A man who was dying from lung cancer and unable to leave the hospital was baptized in the pool at Spain Rehabilitation Center.
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UAB Medicine joins more than 100 health systems acknowledged as working to make high-quality care for older adults even more tailored to patients’ goals and preferences.
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A UAB oncologist has received a Pioneering Ideas Grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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Adults who are 65 or older are more susceptible to the heat.
Anna’s Fund, which was established by Rodney Tucker, M.D., and Billy Connelley, provides financial assistance to Hand in Paw volunteer teams to help defray costs associated with training and supplies to become a pet therapy team.
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Kellie Flood, M.D., is a geriatrician and the associate chief medical and quality officer for Geriatrics Care Transitions at UAB.
Palliative counselors at UAB provide support to patients facing serious illness, while also providing therapeutic support to the patients’ family members.
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SPRINT trial: Intensive lowering of blood pressure did not significantly reduce dementia risk but did have a measurable impact on mild cognitive impairment.
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Dawne Mouzon, Ph.D., will present her lecture on gender differences in marriage, romantic involvement, and desire for romantic involvement among older African-Americans at UAB on Jan. 4.
A group of women who range from ages 30-80 formed a support group with one another in their breast cancer fight in an effort to live life to the fullest.
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