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Green Practice News: April 2025

My Green Doctor

New Research: Teaching Patients about Climate Resilience Newly published original research co-authored by My Green Doctor’s Dr. Todd Sack concludes that, “ the medical office waiting room appears to be an accepted, time-efficient, and effective site to communicate knowledge on climate change and health. ” Contact us today! of total U.S.

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Demystifying the Role of HHS and ASPE in Guiding Federal Aging Policy and Priorities with Dr. Tisamarie Sherry

GeriPal

For the policy buffs and policy newbies out there, we hope this podcast is an essential primer to government in action. Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Devika Nair, who is a nephrologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee Valley VA Healthcare System. Where are we with a lot of these medications?

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Health and Wealth Shocks: Lauren Hunt, Rebecca Rodin, Tsai-Chin Cho

GeriPal

Those disruptive events or shocks often portend a major decline in function from which people with dementia never fully recover. Today we talk about disruptive events, or health and wealth shocks. And the government can do something about that?!? Alex 03:41 Okay, so today we’re going to talk about disruptive events.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

[link] Promising Practice Recognition PEACH was named a Promising Practice in equity-oriented palliative care as part of a national initiative funded by Health Canada, operated by Healthcare Excellence Canada & the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer. To medical directors, chiefs, and some were really cool to talk to me.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

And he’s also chaired the California Pacific Medical Center’s ethics committee since 1985. So in some ways, it was an iatrogenic event. There was also a second event in that the pressures chosen weren’t the ideal ones. Bill, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Bill 00:53 Thank you, Alex. So, yes, they could fix it.

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Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy

GeriPal

And so any additional stressor such as heat or an extreme weather event or having to move from your home because of a climate related disaster can really tax an older adult whose window of resilience is more limited. And it is going to affect, if it hasn’t already, our food quality, the food that’s available, our medications.

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Writing for the Lay Public: Rosanne Leipzig and Louise Aronson

GeriPal

Like in pandemic, I wrote a few articles early on and then when I started working for the city and state, I just stopped and partly was the horrible, horrible, horrible things we were seeing and that the government was doing to older people. And part of it was just not having time because I was doing my UCSF job and that job. Eric: Yeah.

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