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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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What is going on with MAID in Canada? Bill Gardner, Leonie Herx, & Sonu Gaind

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To be eligible in Canada patients must have a “ grievous and irremediable ” condition, including disability ; they do not have to have a terminal illness with a prognosis of less than 6 months. A planned expansion of MAID to include people with mental illness was placed on hold until March 2024. So less than six months to live.

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Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

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The songs about how saving lives is actually a pretty complicated business. Sheryl: Largely the people who live there as opposed to government funds. And that’s the complication here is there’s so many things that the staff can be trained on. And I also think it’s a little bit topical. Alex: Yeah. Eric: Nice.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

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So, we formed this organization called Pain and Palliative Care Society in the Northern Kerala city of Kalakkad based in the government medical college. But when I retired from government service, I left Kalakkad in 2002. Raj: We are not limited by definitions because we started our first non non-government organization.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

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link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. So we’re going to be today talking about serious illness palliative care in the homelessness population. I’ll just throw out there people with serious illness experiencing homelessness.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

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You know, she would have had 90 really good years, and she would have just gone into a coma with no blood pressure and died, you know, with, like, a day and a half of illness. Alex 15:13 This is really complicated. Eric 42:11 But how much of it is like Winston Churchill, like, democracy is the worst form of government.

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What is Death? Winston Chiong and Sean Aas

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Alex 28:22 That’s not in the vital talk, serious illness, communication. And for all the ways in which every single case of brain death is so complicated, you might step back and say that brain death is working out okay in the real world, right? This is not the way you break. Sean 28:29 But that’s the.

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