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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

Alex: But the longer title’s Ethno-Geriatrics and Special Populations. A huge portion of that difference in wealth you can trace back to the fact that their families were not able to get into the housing market. White folks who are homeless are often folks who have cut ties with their families for a variety of reasons.

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What Lessons Have We Learned from the First COVID Surges? Jim Wright & Darrell Owens

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Lucky, Jim and many others like him were willing to come on to our podcast those first several months of the pandemic and share their experiences and lessons learned caring for COVID positive patients and their family members. . So these people had been quarantined and kept in these adult family homes where they couldn’t get exposed.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

But as we talked to patients and providers, there was, really, this need for patients who wanted services, like IV antibiotics and IV fluids, but wanted to be able to spend that time at home, with their family, even if it meant it was their last days or weeks. And that’s a totally, totally appropriate question. Eric: Yeah.

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