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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

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And it was born when I was a medical resident at UCSF Internal Medicine. It was like kind of a co op with this common space that different groups could rent for events and meetings and things like that. We have recently, for our larger events, and even not as large events, we have people send us their stories.

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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

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If they’re frail, if they’re falling, if they have cognitive impairment, they’re at higher risk of adverse drug events. From my standpoint, you want to think practically, okay? We’ve got to think through how to accommodate some of these limitations. A pill organizer, having family.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

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This includes transportation, driver’s license, parks, volunteerism, housing, and of course health and human services. But, for a majority, it’s a first time event. That would be an example of something we’re very actively engaged in California in addition to the older Americans Act.