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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. The social determinants of health and what community well being was a big part of. I always knew that I wanted to get into healthcare, to use healthcare as a springboard for social change in our communities.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

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

GeriPal

Lingsheng (and I) recently published studies on this in JAMA Internal Medicine , and JAGS. It’s both institutionalized racism where there are policies and practices by corporations, by government that create inequality. And one of the things that we’ll talk about today is how did the community respond?

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. Whereas with comprehensive dementia care, what you really need is a lot of the support that is delivered in the community. Number one, number of days you are in the community.

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What We Now Know About COVID Prevention and Treatment: A Podcast with Monica Gandhi

GeriPal

NIH study about long COVID published the day before in Annals of Internal Medicine. And their death rate was so high during Omicron because they had distrust to the vaccine and distrust to the government. One is in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Stat news article about variants/COVID becoming more predictable.