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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

All of them are going to be over 65 by 2030, so if you figure a quarter of those have diabetes, I call it the silver tsunami that’s coming into the palliative care geriatrics world, so these are topics that are going to be really important to all of us. And just with the aging population, baby boomers are going to be hitting 65.

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250,000 Preventable Deaths Every Year: Why Climate and Health Must Be Funded Together

My Green Doctor

According to the World Health Organization, climate change will cause an additional 250,000 deaths every year between 2030 and 2050. We must transform healthcare into a frontline responder for climate resilience. It is a public health catastrophe—and it’s claiming lives every day. These deaths will not be evenly distributed.

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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. I view that almost the complete opposite, as much more of a success of what I think one of my colleagues ophthalmologist that in Texas says mission transfer.

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

GeriPal

That’s at every conversation I share, “These are the statistics, this is what’s going to happen by 2030, 2050. Fayron: One of the key statistics I say is, “By 2030, nearly 40% of individuals that would be diagnosed with dementia would be Black or Latino.” This is what they’re projecting.”

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

GeriPal

It’s just that they look like a big bmI, but they lost 15, 2030 pounds. The post Cachexia and Anorexia in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Eduardo Bruera appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. But their albumin is too. Would they have a nephropathy or anything?

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

GeriPal

Nursing’s had a problem getting it there, and we may get there at some point, but medicine is working on that, and there’s an organization called Global Consortium for Climate and Health Education that is really leading the way for all healthcare providers for information on how to do that. What does that actually look like?