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. Jace 30:17 Absolutely.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Sheryl: Largely the people who live there as opposed to government funds. And when I was getting my PhD, I wanted to find something that spoke to me, and I had been doing clinical work in nursing homes. So, how do we establish standards so that you even get the basic care you need for your cognitive or physical functional issues?

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

These are families who are in distress. I understand that it can be a hard place clinically. We should be able to trust all the data that comes from our governing board. So again, thinking about behaviors, so I’m thinking about behaviors for dementia. Absolutely clinicians are trying to do the right thing.

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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

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. And also physical assault from serious injuries to just kind of hearing about friends who have died from this incident.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

AlexSmithMD Additional links: JAMA paper on clinical research risks, climate change, and health Geriatric medicine in the era of climate change Health Care Without Harm: [link] Practice Green Health: [link] Global Consortium for Climate and Health Education: [link] Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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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. The journal section’s requirements are the same as for a clinical investigation. White folks who are homeless are often folks who have cut ties with their families for a variety of reasons.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Malaz: I love it.

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Doctors for America

JUNE 23, 2025

These raids, detentions, and family separations are both morally reprehensible and public health catastrophes. Children and families are experiencing severe psychological distress, toxic stress, and long-term harm to physical and mental health due to forced separations and the constant threat of deportation.

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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

Summary Transcript CME Summary I read Farah Stockmans article in the NYT on why attacks on DEI will cost us all , and thought, Yes, and everyone includes harm to our healthcare workforce, our patients, and their families. Now to the federal government that is going way beyond what I think people truly understand. Well played.

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