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

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For the policy buffs and policy newbies out there, we hope this podcast is an essential primer to government in action. And so to develop that equation, they use the cohort of individuals and their data, their blood samples, creatine and other physical attributes. We talk about: . difficile infections.

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

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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. Wait, so one key message is that social health is linked to physical and cognitive health?!? What’s a disruptive event?

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

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And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. They want you to recognize their pain, not just their physical pain, but their trauma that they’ve experienced as a, as a, as a result of being on the streets. How do you actually physically find them if that’s the case?

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

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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. I mean, obviously nobody fed her the pill with the intention of choking her, but it wasn’t like suddenly she had another event out of the blue because she had a bad heart. Eric 46:49 Yeah.

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

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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. We are already seeing effects and they’re pretty much every body system. What does that actually look like?

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

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These were usually very physically demanding, low paid, often usually non-union work, that they worked their whole lives and were hanging on by their fingernails. Sometime after the age of 50, we could identify an event where the folks who were first homeless before 50, there wasn’t a clear crisis that precipitated it.