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Episode 232: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 15 – Housing is Health: Racism and Homelessness – Clinician + Community Perspectives

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Push back against discussions that homelessness is caused by substance use or mental health problems. Calac, Victor A. Push back against individual narratives that blame individuals for systemic injustice. Push back against dehumanizing language. Disaggregated data on homelessness is vital.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

The idea was to create a robust community-based infrastructure that could help older adults succeed in their homes and communities, whether they were healthy, how to keep them healthy or they were at imminent risk of emergency room visits, hospitalizations, or nursing home placements. To Susan’s point.

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

And it was really good for my mental and physical… Physical health, obviously, but mental health really. So one that the primary outcome was supposed to be documentation, which it improved documentation, it wasn’t powered to actually look at any utilization or hard outcomes. Rachelle: Yeah. Eric: Yeah.

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

GeriPal

So if you think about dementia, it’s on the intersection of aging stigma and mental health stigma. The typical utilization of inappropriate hospitalization and emergency room and total cost of care. But the other problem, which I think the driving force for even lack of demand, is there’s a huge stigma.