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Pacific communities co-designing and leading interventions to prevent gout and rheumatic fever in New Zealand [Community based participatory research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: After a Samoan patient from New Zealand (NZ) attended a PACE workshop at NAPCRG in 2016 with her general practitioner, she was inspired to set up a Pacific community group to work towards better health outcomes for Pacific people living in South Auckland, NZ.

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Green Practice News: April 2025

My Green Doctor

It tells your office colleagues and patients that your healthcare practice or clinic is committed to forging a healthier work space and community. Encourage Small Changes That Add Up Shift your clinic toward paperless records and LED lighting to reduce waste and energy costs. Need help planning an event?

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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

GeriPal

Her most recent book is Dementia Friendly Communities: why we need them and how we can create them . He wrote a book titled “ Psychiatric consultation in long term care ” that has a strengths based approach to staging dementia (how cool is that). And that’s why we need this community support, I think. Transcript.

Community 101
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Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers

GeriPal

Number four, again, structure and process that promotes early mobilization which may or may not require a formal OT and PT consultation. Not every hospital or every health system is the same physically or financial incentives or which clinical programs exist and patient demographics.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

GeriPal

Eric 07:31 A clinical perspective, why is it important to test this stepped care model versus implementing more? And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. Jennifer 07:31 From.

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Grief, Loss, and Well-Being Debriefing: Vickie Leff, Matthew Loscalzo, Craig Blinderman

GeriPal

And I chose one in particular experience to write about, a trans woman who I call Jamie in the piece, who I had known prior to the pandemic who I was treating as a palliative care consultant for her cancer related pain. And so we just designed a couple of workshops to train some facilitators. She was homeless. It has to.