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Demystifying the Role of HHS and ASPE in Guiding Federal Aging Policy and Priorities with Dr. Tisamarie Sherry

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For the policy buffs and policy newbies out there, we hope this podcast is an essential primer to government in action. There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations. It’s another article, another major article that has triggered the complicated UTI circuit.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

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So in some ways, it was an iatrogenic event. There was also a second event in that the pressures chosen weren’t the ideal ones. I mean, obviously nobody fed her the pill with the intention of choking her, but it wasn’t like suddenly she had another event out of the blue because she had a bad heart.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

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And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. Government is not the 51st state. And I remember getting to the shelter the next day after meeting him early and not finding him anywhere and learning later that he had died overnight.