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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.

Community 130
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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. Host an Earth Day Community Event Organize a neighborhood clean-up or tree-planting initiative and invite staff, patients, and local schools. 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. And then we had half day workshops to get the frontline team just really excited about being the first ACE unit in the State of Alabama. Are they community dwelling?

Hospital 100
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How MIT Sloan’s Climate Interactive Tool Sheds Light on the Global Impact on Health from Climate Change

My Green Doctor

MGD Marketing Consultant Judy Holm is a Certified Ambassador for Climate Interactive, spotlighting how our changing climate is reshaping global health — and how tools like En-ROADS can help us prepare and respond. Vulnerable populations — children, the elderly, and low-income communities — are bearing the brunt of its health consequences.

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

GeriPal

Alex 10:53 Yeah, or like palliative care if they get a consult for whatever reason, but not trn consult, like standardized, you know, randomized to palliative care versus whatever they’re doing before. If they get palliative care consult, they get one. If they don’t, they don’t. It’s not case finding.

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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. Eric: Yeah.