Lifestyle matters, dying matters

Jun 14, 2024

Hussain Al-Zabedi, the Lead of the lifestyle medicine course at Red Whale and a GP specializing in lifestyle medicine, joins the discussion. He highlights how lifestyle changes can serve as a potent antidote to over-medication in healthcare. The conversation shifts to the importance of identifying individuals approaching the end of life, detailing proactive care strategies. They also delve into the role of social determinants of health and share insights on enhancing patient engagement through lifestyle adjustments. It's an enlightening and compassionate exploration of essential healthcare topics.

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INSIGHT

Lifestyle Medicine Tackles Root Causes

Lifestyle medicine targets the root causes of long-term conditions linked to unhealthy lifestyles.
It offers a more impactful alternative to treating complications with medications and surgeries alone.

ADVICE

Develop Core Lifestyle Skills

Develop skills in understanding social determinants, behavior change, and lifestyle medicine pillars to practice effectively.
Exploring these areas improves your ability to support sustained patient lifestyle changes.

ADVICE

Personalize Gradual Lifestyle Changes

Use personalized, small-step goals based on patient readiness for lifestyle change.
Support gradual improvements to sustain behavior change, such as swapping sugary snacks progressively.

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Grab your trainers, your dog lead or a cuppa and join us for some free CPD as we have another relaxed round up of recent Red Whale primary care Pearls of wisdom. There was so much information in the Pearls that we released over the 5 weeks of May that we’ve realised that we can’t possibly squeeze it all into one handy sized episode, so in the first of two episodes this month, Nik and Caroline discuss:

Lifestyle as medicine- an antidote to too much medicine?
Dying matters: identifying adults approaching end of life.

We also announce the winner of a whole year of Red Whale Knowledge for free, in our Primary Care Superheroes competition…

Listen as soon as you can to ensure you have full access to all the free resources.

The rest of the Pearls from May will be covered next week along with a new best intentions story to put a smile on your face.

Useful resources:
Lifestyle medicine
Websites

RCGP - physical activity hub

British Society of Lifestyle Medicine

RCGP GP with an extended role in lifestyle medicine framework

Personalised care delivery in primary care – Leamington case study

You can get info/ book here: Red Whale Lifestyle Medicine Course

Dying matters
BMJ Journal of medical ethics, 2019

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