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An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. On Why Integrated Care Should Be a Cornerstone of the HHS Agenda

Integrated Care News by CFHA

Your desire to reimagine our approach to well-being is one that we share as a 30-year-old upstart association rooted in the fundamental idea that our health system is disintegrated. At the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA), we see your agenda aligning with ours in powerful ways.

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

Well, because they’re hard on people with dementia and they can be very hard on families, and they’re a form of crisis. So I think we’re poised now with the guide model and with the evidence we have about healthcare utilization, impact on caregivers, course of dementia, comorbidity management and all of that.

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Vaccine Misinformation, Pseudoscience, & the Frailty of Community Health

Physician's Weekly

As a family physician, my days are filled with caring for individuals and families across the lifespan and in multiple healthcare settings. I spend other days meeting with legislators or advocacy groups to discuss policy and how it may impact patients’ health, as well as physicians’ ability to care for them.

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

GeriPal

So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. But they also did not do the DPOA for healthcare form. So there’s no healthcare surrogate. And that can really inform what your own institutional policy is. This is Eric Widera.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

But then once it was open, started seeing a lot of other populations: not just our own hospital population, but a lot more just community members calling with concerns about driving. Certainly my bias is that healthcare professionals really do have a role in this discussion. I can get you guys that information. Eric: Yeah.

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