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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. And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. It might have to do with a sensitivity around mental health.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

When they think about homelessness, their mind goes to what I would call the individual risk factors, things like having a substance use disability or mental health disability. In the United States in 2023, the truth of the matter is you don’t need very many individual risk factors to become homeless.

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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. And also, you know, do they know of anyone, friends, family, coworkers who’s been attacked, were assaulted as a part of these incidents? Eric 05:07 What actually happened with Covid-19 well.

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

GeriPal

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Malaz: I love it.

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Episode 285: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 21 – Psychosocial and Cultural Considerations for Providing Healthcare to Immigrant and Refugee Populations

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Gillette” Gillette-Pierce May 2, 2023 Summary: This episode highlights the psychosocial and cultural considerations for providing healthcare to immigrant and refugee populations. She notes she was born in Iran and her family emigrated to Canada and then to the United States just a month before 9/11. References Morris JE, Saadi A.

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‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Would Batter Rural Hospital Finances, Researchers Say

Physician's Weekly

.” Hospitals that do stay afloat likely will do so by cutting services that are particularly dependent on Medicaid reimbursements, such as labor and delivery units, mental health care, and emergency rooms. ” By Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit news service covering health issues. .

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‘We Need To Keep Fighting’: HIV Activists Organize To Save Lives as Trump Guts Funding

Physician's Weekly

And it would end a strategic initiative to expand HIV services in minority communities, and another to support the mental health of people of color with HIV or at risk of infection. In the 1980s, the government refused to acknowledge HIV as gay men died young. “I thought my family was going to disown me,” he said.