Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

has long disparaged certain vaccines, calling them unsafe and saying that the government officials who regulate them are compromised and corrupt. Take influenza, which annually sends from 140,000 to 710,000 people to hospitals, most of them seniors, and is fatal to 10% of hospitalized older adults. Kennedy Jr.,

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Alex 00:20 And she’s professor of family medicine at USC, deputator at JAGS, and co lead of the bold center of Excellence in early detection of dementia. Well, because they’re hard on people with dementia and they can be very hard on families, and they’re a form of crisis. Is that right, Soo? Soo 00:32 Thanks.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Sheryl: Largely the people who live there as opposed to government funds. I mean, people who used to be in hospitals are now with quicker DRGs. Others take care of people less so, a more hospitality model, if you will. Or do you want to go to the hospital if something happens? The acuity level has gone up, right?

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. They may have few family members, live alone.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

He had a 14 month recovery in hospital and rehab and continually asked to have life sustaining treatment suspended so that he could be allowed to die. So she bled a lot and finally called for help and was transferred to the hospital, where she started crashing in the trauma room. She didn’t die in the hospital.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Administration on Aging connecting you to services for older adults and their families California’s Master Plan for Aging New York’s Master Plan for Aging Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Well, if you are like me, you’ve probably heard of these programs but are at a loss to know exactly what they do. This is Eric Widera.

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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.” Malaz: I love it.

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