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Green Practice News: April 2025

My Green Doctor

Todd Sack concludes that, “ the medical office waiting room appears to be an accepted, time-efficient, and effective site to communicate knowledge on climate change and health. ” According to the 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown, mortality caused by extreme heat events increased by 53.7% The healthcare sector contributes 8.5%

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. So we did a podcast on aging and homelessness with Margot Kushel in 2023. The social determinants of health and what community well being was a big part of. And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew.

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

GeriPal

JAMA IM 2023 A shout-out to my NPR episode on 1A titled the “State of Hospice Care” DISCLAIMER While we filmed in Montreal during the Annual Assembly, all opinions expressed in this podcast are independent of AAHPM and HPNA, or the Annual Assembly. So initially hospice grew as a non-profit, charity based, community based organization.

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

GeriPal

It’s both institutionalized racism where there are policies and practices by corporations, by government that create inequality. My mom, who’s half chinese and half hawaiian, helped rally the asian american community in Michigan after the Vincent Chin incident. Eric 05:07 What actually happened with Covid-19 well.

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Marijuana: Top Ten Reasons for Descheduling, Rescheduling or Not

FDA Law

We blogged on the December 5, 2023, letter from six Democratic governors to President Biden). The regulated cannabis marketplace brings in billions of dollars in revenue into state and federal governments, with predictions that cannabis sales will exceed $53 billion by 2027. Letter to U.S.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

One of the worst ways is you have a community of people who’ve paid into Social Security their whole life, paid into to support Medicare their whole life, and don’t live long enough to see the fruits of that. I would love to get the geriatrics community to say, “Age is just a number.” Not true, actually.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

Whereas with comprehensive dementia care, what you really need is a lot of the support that is delivered in the community. So I think what’s really exciting is that these community-based organizations, some of those groups that provide training, transportation, respite care, all of that was never included. Diane: Yeah.