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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

GeriPal

But at the end of the day, I actually view medicine more as an applied science. So we take that science and we apply it to something that’s very messy and chaotic, like a human being or a community or a population. And it was born when I was a medical resident at UCSF Internal Medicine. Emily 06:27 Yes.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

Tim 40:33 Yeah, I was going to say, I think, you know, we talked about kind of external to the health system, but within health systems, I think certainly things like social determinants of health screening that gets at a lot of these issues of loneliness, transportation. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.

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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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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.