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Community Integration: Pushing the Boundaries for a Better World

Integrated Care News by CFHA

The plane was piloted by a native of the island, deeply committed to helping his community. Residents and local leaders joined forces to send food and clothing to the island and to welcome newly arrived families to their town. What followed was a powerful expression of community and compassion.

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Self-management support as an add-on to usual care for adults experiencing anxiety: A pragmatic randomized clinical trial [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

While SMS is well established for chronic physical conditions, evidence is lacking to support the implementation of structured SMS programs for common mental disorders, and particularly anxiety. h group virtual workshop with 15 participants supported by two trained facilitators.

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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 . She directs UCSF MERI’s patient, family, and clinician support with classes and consultation on resiliency, well-being, and grief. And that’s why we need this community support, I think. Transcript. This is Eric Widera.

Community 101
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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

GeriPal

And the entire community of palliative care said yes, not a palliative care study. We did not just rely on a physical symptom measure, which many of our colleagues are doing. It’s not just about physical symptom management. Sure, it has palliative care in the title. Sure, there was a palliative care led prognosis, meaning.

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

GeriPal

And in our reporting center, we tracked physical assaults, verbal harassment. My mom, who’s half chinese and half hawaiian, helped rally the asian american community in Michigan after the Vincent Chin incident. And one of the things that we’ll talk about today is how did the community respond? Alex 15:37 Yeah.

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Health and Wealth Shocks: Lauren Hunt, Rebecca Rodin, Tsai-Chin Cho

GeriPal

Wait, so one key message is that social health is linked to physical and cognitive health?!? 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? And the government can do something about that?!?

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Grief, Loss, and Well-Being Debriefing: Vickie Leff, Matthew Loscalzo, Craig Blinderman

GeriPal

You’d imagine though that our professional expertise and experiences in helping patients and families cope with loss and grief would be helpful in managing our own personal losses. Because every time we remember a story, it’s changed physically in the brain. Turns out, it’s maybe not. It just absolutely has to.