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Telehealth for Maternity Care: Qualitative Perspectives of Clinicians and Mothers [Qualitative research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Background The use of telehealth to mitigate the maternity care crisis is an area of great interest. Telehealth as an alternative to in-person health appointments gained prominence at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Health institutions rapidly adopted video and voice consultations to limit viral transmissions.

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Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

GeriPal

Analyzing the Health and Retirement Study, she found 60% of older adults screened positive for depression in the last year of life (related study here ). Eric: So you could probably tell we’re going to be talking about mental health issues. Or is it that I’m just not screening? That’s a lot.

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

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We discuss: What is considered a hate incident, how is it tracked, what do we know about changes over time The wider impact of Anti-Asian hate on older Asians, who are afraid to go out, leading to anxiety, social isolation, loneliness, decreased exercise, missed appointments and medications. question used to screen for domestic violence.