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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. As you know, our population is aging at a rapid speed and older, adult older persons is no longer cared for only by a geriatrician or a primary care physician. We talk about: . difficile infections.

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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. We have world class primary care, cancer care, palliative care. Government is not the 51st state. He had overdosed due to a combination of alcohol and street drugs. And that’s about half of our referrals.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

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Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome for the first time, guest Bill Ander e ch, who’s a primary care internist and senior scholar in Sutter Health’s program in M edicine and Human Values, a program that he co-founded with a former UCSF faculty member, Al Johnson. So in some ways, it was an iatrogenic event.