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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

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What are the structural factors and individual factors that contribute to homelessness? ” On that grand rounds, you differentiated structural factors from … I forget what the word was, individual- Margot: Individual risk factors. Why do we say “over 50” is “older” for homeless persons, why not 65? Margot: After 50.

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How to identify a victim of heat exhaustion or heat stroke

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And elderly individuals may not recognize the need for additional water when its hot because they cant thermoregulate their bodies as efficiently as younger people, Wood says. However, we do not guarantee individual replies due to the high volume of messages. Your feedback is important to us.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

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The patients that, I think, most benefited from it were those individuals who, as I said, maybe, had a pneumonia, and needed IV antibiotics, but wanted to do that… If they could get better in the comfort of their own homes, that were not interested in passing away in the hospital. And that’s more standard. Tacara: I agree.

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