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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

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And often patients are told there’s no cardiovascular problem, you don’t have heart failure, you’re older, or maybe it’s from another chronic condition or. If they’re frail, if they’re falling, if they have cognitive impairment, they’re at higher risk of adverse drug events.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

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This includes transportation, driver’s license, parks, volunteerism, housing, and of course health and human services. But, for a majority, it’s a first time event. That would be an example of something we’re very actively engaged in California in addition to the older Americans Act.