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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

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Thomas: But the person did screen and used a little bit of the and Social Network Scale and the UCLA Loneliness Scale. Like I said, the patient screened positive for it. The idea of listening with your ear, so E being educate, A, assess, and R, respond. I did actually go back in and administer scales at least one time.

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Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy

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-@AlexSmithMD Additional links: JAMA paper on clinical research risks, climate change, and health Geriatric medicine in the era of climate change Health Care Without Harm: [link] Practice Green Health: [link] Global Consortium for Climate and Health Education: [link] Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric Widera.

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The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medicine: Guest Bob Wachter

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And it happened, and it happened in large part, as you note, because of enormous stimulus from the US government for health systems to adopt electronic health records. And thank you for the unbelievably great work you do, educating so many people and doing it with a smile and with music. I know you have many things to do. Eric: Yeah.

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

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Ongoing reports from patients about anti-Asian hate experiences Should clinicians screen for Anti-Asian hate? question used to screen for domestic violence. It’s both institutionalized racism where there are policies and practices by corporations, by government that create inequality. You’re pre contemplative.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

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In terms of their risk, in terms of how we think of preventive health, as we think of screening, all of those things, I would turn around to the geriatricians and say, “Check your implicit bias. In what moral universe is a federal government deeply subsidizing my housing and not subsidizing that of my patients?

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

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This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. I had the tenacity and education to try to figure this out. This money allow me to take care of the caregiver, educate them, support them.

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

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” And I could tell you that’s a lot for a government agency to hear. I mean people can walk to your office and you can have all kinds of problems recorded to your prescription just because they came to your office rather than you looked at them on a computer screen doesn’t really change. We hear that all the time now.