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Green Practice News: May 2025

My Green Doctor

For instance, the UK government’s initiative to install solar panels on National Health Service sites is projected to save each site up to £45,000 annually, amounting to approximately £13 million in total savings per year. From rising asthma rates to heat-related illnesses, climate change is already harming the most vulnerable among us.

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

GeriPal

Just today (June 17th) as we record this podcast: Ezra Klein released a wonderful interview with Sarah McBride , the first openly transgender member of congress A judge ruled that cuts to NIH grants focused on minority groups, including transgender people, were illegal and ordered the government to restore funding. Noelle Marie 01:15 I do.

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

GeriPal

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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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

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. those experiencing homelessness). Really looking forward to the conversation.

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

GeriPal

For the policy buffs and policy newbies out there, we hope this podcast is an essential primer to government in action. And so there was a report in 2009 by the Institute of Medicine saying that we need to equip all of these individuals in caring for older person in an evidence based manner. We talk about: . Devika: Thank You.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

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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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

GeriPal

I think some individuals thought there was cherry-picking of stories that made it seem like hospice is this bad thing, that it’s taking advantage of vulnerable individuals and it didn’t talk enough about the good things that hospice does. On the other side, there’s another group that thinks, you know what?

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