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Access to health care and services for the Deaf: A scoping review of reviews [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: The Deaf experience many barriers when accessing health care and services. A growing number of research has been published on the subject, but the Deaf community remains underserved in health care and under-represented in health research. 2010) and adapted by Schultz et al. Population Studied: Deaf adults.

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Episode 286 – Rafael Medina Subspecialty Series – Elevated Creatinine

The Clinical Problem Solvers

[link] Maddy Conte and Seyma Yildirim introduce a new series on the podcast: “The Rafael Medina Subspecialty Series,” which will always be in loving memory of our dear friend and CPSolvers family member, Dr. Rafael Medina. He impacted the lives of so many and touched every corner of the CPSolvers community, and rippled far beyond.

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Nurse Practitioners Critical in Treating Older Adults as Ranks of Geriatricians Shrink

Physician's Weekly

She enjoyed talking with the half dozen other residents at her adult family home in Washington state. “It’s also often the family member or the person helping to manage them.” Their growth has bolstered primary care, and, like doctors, they can specialize in particular branches of medicine.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

And then from that, through community activists, ACT UP, legislators who felt that there needed to be something done, doctors within CDCR who cared passionately about the HIV population and others, all came together and we were able to eventually get funding for this 17-bed inpatient hospice. Only about 5% of the population is female.

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

GeriPal

Kathleen 03:47 I think any of us who’ve spent any time in nursing homes have spent time working in a nursing home setting, have visited, had family members in nursing homes and looked around and seen the population there. That can’t go out for specialty care all the time, like pain management. That’s a big question.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: Discussion of a Multinational Trial with Lieve Van den Block. Whereas the home with the low rate of feeding tube use involved families in decision making.

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For family medicine workforce, HHS reorganization plan receives a failing grade

Common Sense Family Doctor

The sub-headline from a Medscape news article said it all: "Anesthesiology Still Hot, Family Medicine Is Not." Before becoming a core faculty member at the Lancaster General Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program , I spent more than 15 years teaching in Georgetown's family medicine department. growth in the U.S.

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