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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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Administration on Aging connecting you to services for older adults and their families California’s Master Plan for Aging New York’s Master Plan for Aging Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. This includes transportation, driver’s license, parks, volunteerism, housing, and of course health and human services.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

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Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.”

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What RFK Jr. Isn’t Talking About: How To Make Vaccines Safer

Physician's Weekly

He directed the patients to seek local help. While it’s possible that Nath’s patients suffered covid vaccine injuries, Marks said, their symptoms were so varied it was hard to characterize a possible syndrome. centers study rare vaccine reactions. His clinical study was ending. Kennedy Jr. forced him out in May.

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Federal Proposals Threaten Provider Taxes, Key Source of Medicaid Funding for States

Physician's Weekly

The move could shrink access to health care for some of the nation’s poorest and most vulnerable people, warn analysts, patient advocates, and Democratic political leaders. And the Republicans who run the federal government are looking to spend far fewer of those dollars. By Bernard J.

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California Immigrants Weigh Health Coverage Against Deportation Risk

Physician's Weekly

. “I need money for my kids, for my rent, for transport, for food. Maria is among what the federal government estimates are 2.6 California’s Department of Health Care Services announced June 13 that it is seeking more information from the federal government. Sometimes, there’s nothing left for me.”