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: . Lona: Absolutely.

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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

Usually I don’t put a lot of background on this podcast, but I got to … in November of 2022, Ava Kofman, along with ProPublica, published … well I won’t want to say great, published an article in The New Yorker that I think it was divisive in the hospice and palliative care community. Now it’s 70%.

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IT Provider Patients Families 115

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

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. For nursing education it is now a requirement for accreditation- Eric: Really. This is Eric Widera. Ruth: Yeah.

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Healthcare IT Education Community 130

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Alex: We’ve got a lot to talk about…what states are doing and cities are doing to support older adults in the community. But, what you need is a community-based game there. The long-term care is being actually provided in the community at a much higher rate than what the formal system provides. You go back home.

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

And the government can do something about that?!? But we all know intuitively as clinicians and as people in the community, we see people have these events and then we see them have a much faster decline after that. In the community? Eric 42:13 What do you want the government to do? Eric 20:32 Are these people in the.

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Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 63

GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

It’s both institutionalized racism where there are policies and practices by corporations, by government that create inequality. Like, do you think maybe, you know, let’s educate. My mom, who’s half chinese and half hawaiian, helped rally the asian american community in Michigan after the Vincent Chin incident.

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Mental Health Community Screening IT 118

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

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. I would love to get the geriatrics community to say, “Age is just a number.” Not true, actually.

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

We thought that it would be educational and entertaining to list the Top Ten reasons presented in letters from three high profile stakeholder groups to Attorney General Merrick Garland and/or DEA Administrator Anne Milgram on how to handle the scheduling recommendation. We encourage you to read the letters in their entirety.

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Medical Healthcare Professional Community IT 59

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. I had the tenacity and education to try to figure this out. This money allow me to take care of the caregiver, educate them, support them.

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Patient-Centered IT Families Family 126

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

And I think that it was percolating in a lot of the palliative care community. ” And I could tell you that’s a lot for a government agency to hear. We were the highest utilizers of telemedicine in the whole UCSF health system at that time which we’re very proud of. We hear that all the time now.

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Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73

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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