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Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

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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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

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Janet: So as Julie Childers often says in the same way that as palliative care clinicians we can take a first pass to address distress from depression without being necessarily mental health counseling specialists or a psychiatrist. They have poor pain, they have poor function, but you also can’t clearly make a diagnosis.

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

GeriPal

All of them offer the same array of services, really emphasizing social determinants of health and preventive services like falls prevention, chronic disease, self-management, caregiver training. 60% of all medical costs have nothing to do with your health diagnosis. To Susan’s point. Things like that.

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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. He kept his diagnosis hidden from friends and family because he knew how people talked about HIV. Although churches in the U.S. It paid off.