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Your Guide to Healthcare Careers in New Haven County, CT

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

is now 60 or older, leading to a greater need for healthcare professionals. To meet this need, local initiatives like CT Health Horizons are working to train professionals and improve care in the region. Top Healthcare Careers in New Haven County, CT The healthcare job market is experiencing significant growth in Connecticut.

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Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

GeriPal

So my background clinically is working with cancer patients and families and those who underwent bone marrow transplant, and a lot of times for their treatment regimen, it includes steroids. What is the role of the family caregiver system, how they play a role? Tamryn: Yes, 100%.

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Black/African American Caregivers of Older Adults Living with Dementia: Fayron Epps and Karen Moss

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Karen has a Cambia Sojourns award to pilot an intervention in which Black/African American former caregivers are trained to provide peer support to current caregivers (Peer2Care). I think as researchers, we need to do our due diligence to follow that and healthcare providers, of course, ’cause we want to be sensitive.

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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

GeriPal

We were never going to have all the geriatricians that folks had forecast, whether it was 25,000 in 2025 or 30,000 in 2030, we were never going to get there. And one of the things was, “You’re telling us stuff we already know”, and also, “I’m going to critique you in that you didn’t provide any solutions.”

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Cachexia and Anorexia in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Eduardo Bruera

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I feel like I recognize it when I see it, but I struggle to give a clear definition or provide effective ways to address it. And the truth is we don’t want, I don’t want any patient or family to perceive that when Brera goes to see me, there’s a second interest, a second gain. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) â„¢.

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Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy

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What do we do to very concretely provide heat shelters and cool shelters? Ruth: And then to answer your question also about the different providers as far as nurses and physicians and respiratory therapists and pharmacists, most schools of medicine, nursing and all those other fields are including some climate change in their curriculum.

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Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley

GeriPal

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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