GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Assisted Living Communities (no longer preferable to call them Assisted Living Facilities, as we learned on the podcast) are…what, exactly? If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. . If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. .

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Just today (June 17th) as we record this podcast: Ezra Klein released a wonderful interview with Sarah McBride , the first openly transgender member of congress A judge ruled that cuts to NIH grants focused on minority groups, including transgender people, were illegal and ordered the government to restore funding. Johnson, actually.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

For the policy buffs and policy newbies out there, we hope this podcast is an essential primer to government in action. How HHS and ASPE solicit input from clinicians, community leaders, and older adults and how much it impacts policy decisions (spoiler alert: this involvement is CRUCIAL). We talk about: . So you’re right.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. I moved to Baltimore in 2015 and did clinical fellowship in geriatrics.

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

And so there are fewer opioids going out into the community, and we’re decreasing this risk of opioid use disorder, and all of the other things that have contributed to the opioid crisis. I understand that it can be a hard place clinically. Eric: Although pregabalin, right, more misuse of pregabalin out in the community.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 31, 2021

American physicians and health professionals have immense power and a duty to use that power for the greater good to interrupt, and interrogate the colonial and imperial practices perpetrated by our own government. We must hold our government accountable. We must trust the communities we serve to teach us and to guide initiatives.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

Alex: We’re delighted to welcome Leonie Herx, who’s a palliative care physician and clinical professor at the University of Calgary. Sonu: Prior to that it was illegal and actually in the criminal code, so not only illegal, it’s actually a prohibition in the clinical code. Bill, welcome back to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

But from our clinical work, many of us are familiar with people with dementia who experience sudden shocks to their health, think hip fracture, think hospitalization for pneumonia. Wait, so one key message is that social health is linked to physical and cognitive health?!? And the government can do something about that?!?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Leslie Wharton is a leader in the 26,000 member grassroots organization Elders Climate Action , which organizes older adults to create communities engaged in making a difference at local, state, and national levels. But Ruth, I was wondering too, and you invited us to ask each other questions, so my golly I’m going to do it.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

It’s both institutionalized racism where there are policies and practices by corporations, by government that create inequality. And in our reporting center, we tracked physical assaults, verbal harassment. Asian hate is, again, another umbrella term for racism and discrimination. So we actually included that in our survey.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

I would talk about this, except I was a clinician, and I’m seeing these folks in the hospital and in clinic. One of the worst ways is you have a community of people who’ve paid into Social Security their whole life, paid into to support Medicare their whole life, and don’t live long enough to see the fruits of that.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Too many people do because it’s really hard to keep their loved ones at home for the cost, the enormous financial, mental and physical strain for the family. So IU, we have been able to convert our paper, Chris Callahan paper that was published in 2006, the first clinical trial that was positive. ” Diane: Fantastic.

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Tiny Physician

OCTOBER 17, 2021

The Kerala government has taken off all the restrictions imposed due to the case surge as caseload has come down, and is also planning to restart schools from the second half of November. Even a basic understanding of chemistry, biology, and physics is enough to debunk the concepts in this pseudoscience.

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Doctors for America

JUNE 23, 2025

As a nonpartisan organization of thousands of physicians and medical trainees committed to health justice, we bear witness to the trauma these policies inflict on our patients, our communities, and the healthcare system as a whole. Bar ICE presence in hospitals, clinics, and health centers without a judicial warrant.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

And so I’m not sure if this is true for Joe or for Brooke, but even before the pandemic in our practice here, we saw somewhere around 40 to 50% of our patients via telemedicine anyway, because we have a catchment area of patients who live very far away, many of whom have a lot of physical disability and other limitations to coming in person.

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GeriPal

APRIL 17, 2025

Ali talks about the history of affirmative action, which started as a program for Whites , the importance of diversity in the healthcare workforce , the history of allyship and cross cultural collaboration, and his own efforts to provide opportunity and support for historically oppressed groups in his own community to obtain healthcare careers.

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