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Green Practice News: May 2025

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Our Consulting Services offer customized strategies for group practices, health systems, and medical societies ready to accelerate their impact and lead the way in climate-smart care. Visit our website to explore membership options, start a Practice Management program, or speak with us about our Consulting Services. 3 “Each U.S.

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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

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So on today’s podcast we invite four brilliant individuals to talk about their perspective on how to change how we as a society and health care system partner with individuals with dementia. She directs UCSF MERI’s patient, family, and clinician support with classes and consultation on resiliency, well-being, and grief.

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

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nursing homes grapple with serious illnesses, and roughly half experience dementia. So, how can we improve palliative care for individuals in nursing homes? The reason that you’re in a nursing home is because you have some mix of serious illness and multimorbidity, usually functional impairments. Alex actually was a.

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

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Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. Eric: 2010 was so long ago, we barely had Amazon Prime then. I would say that.

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

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Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. So in 2010, there were about 150,000 incarcerated people in California. But now we have older people dying of older people illnesses. Michele: Yep. Eric: Mm-hmm.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

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Chris 07:41 Yeah, it’s a really interesting thing, because the 2010 article was solving the problem of, hey, send us patients, we promise we won’t kill them. If they get palliative care consult, they get one. Eric 07:31 A clinical perspective, why is it important to test this stepped care model versus implementing more?