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250,000 Preventable Deaths Every Year: Why Climate and Health Must Be Funded Together

My Green Doctor

And yet, the global health sector receives less than 1% of all climate adaptation finance. We must transform healthcare into a frontline responder for climate resilience. This means: Direct influence: Training healthcare professionals to understand and manage the growing connections between environment and illness.

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Involving the inner circle: Emily Largent, Anne Rohlfing, Lynn Flint & Anne Kelly

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary You know when you walk out of a patient’s room and have that sense, “This isn’t going to go well.” The patient is sick and getting sicker, and refuses to let you talk with family or other members of her inner circle. Should you stop at “no?” Lynn: I do. Alex, can you play Send the Sun, by Nikki Lane?

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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

GeriPal

So let’s just say you have a healthy 55 year old or 65 year old in your clinic. That screening influences kind of further treatment, actually, probably more importantly, patient outcomes. So I’m in a specialty clinic, so I’m in this interdisciplinary memory assessment clinic. Nate 05:29 Ooh.

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Group ACP and Equity: Sarah Nouri, Hillary Lum, LJ Van Scoy

GeriPal

It does seem that if communities, particularly historically marginalized communities, are interested in ACP, that fact should carry some weight in how resources are allocated to research and health care financing. So am I measuring it for that specific clinic level quality metric or am I measuring it for my research study?

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New Prognostic Models for Older Adults: Alex Lee, James Deardorff, Sei Lee

GeriPal

As Alex Lee says on our podcast today, all prognostic models will be wrong (in some circumstances and for some patients); our job is to make prognostic models that are clinically useful. And yet, the only thing that may be worse than a prognostic calculator is a clinician relying solely on their clinical intuition.

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

GeriPal

Eric 03:25 So we have a lot to talk about, but I’m wondering if we can kind of take a big step back and just talk about the patient population that’s in nursing homes. Connie 06:18 So, I’ve been a clinician working in the nursing home since back in the 80s, and I saw a lot of patients that really needed palliative care.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

Now when I say variation, I’m not talking about small little clinically questionable variations. Ruth: I do have to also say that it’s important to remember that feeding tube use and hospital transfers for people with advanced dementia has no demonstrated clinical benefit. Joan: A lot of my work comes out of my clinical practice.