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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

We have world class primary care, cancer care, palliative care. The peach program and our mobile palliative care program for people experiencing structural vulnerabilities. You know, we found that 64% of the people we cared for never went to the hospital or ER. Government is not the 51st state.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

When they think about homelessness, their mind goes to what I would call the individual risk factors, things like having a substance use disability or mental health disability. It is completely disconnected, like a scatter plot, between things like rates of substance use and mental health. Those are structural factors.