GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

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.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

And, who within ASPE guides aging policy and connects policy to every day health challenges experienced by patients and clinicians? This office is tasked with providing aging policy research and recommendations within ASPE, including long term care and the National Alzheimer’s Project Act. We talk about: . Rasheeda, welcome to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

In further contrast to the United States, MAID in Canada is almost entirely administered by a clinician, whereas in the United States patients must self administer. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Sonu Gaind, who is a Chief of psychiatry and professor at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center at the University of Toronto.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

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. It’s easier to concentrate on cure, diagnosis, cure. People who are suffering are not very visible.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. The long-term care is being actually provided in the community at a much higher rate than what the formal system provides. But, what you need is a community-based game there.

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

And the government can do something about that?!? And then when you see clinically patients coming into hospital, they’ll have, you know, they’ll be admitted for aspiration pneumonia. We focus on function and mortality because these are outcomes that really are important to patients and families. Lauren 18:33 Yeah.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.”

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GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

I love these topics, too, because even how do we define what is a diagnosis? Patients families want to know whether their loved one has died. Doctors want to know whether the patient has died. You know, when is it okay to harvest organs from a patient? Healthcare provide. It’s coming up very much right now.

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Physicians News Digest

APRIL 3, 2025

The episodes turned both women into advocates for patients and spurred research that made American health care safer. Haskell, of Columbia, South Carolina, has done research and helped write AHRQ-published surveys and guidebooks on patient engagement for hospitals. It also has published tools and guidelines to enhance patient safety.

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