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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. What followed was a powerful expression of community and compassion. Families received help finding housing and employment, transferring social security benefits, and accessing healthcare.

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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

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Her most recent book is Dementia Friendly Communities: why we need them and how we can create them . It is a heavy load and yet I think all of us here think that it can be lighter when there are supportive programs and community engagements in place. And that’s why we need this community support, I think. Transcript.

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Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers

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Not every hospital or every health system is the same physically or financial incentives or which clinical programs exist and patient demographics. Eric: And particularly, the one that seems the hardest is changing the physical environment. And the goal is to maybe just form a community of people so that we can learn from each other.

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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

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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. So it works.

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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

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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

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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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