GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. We talk a lot about people being unhoused, which I think takes the blame away from the individual and kind of de. Naheed 20:04 And you know, the key to this conversation is not to put the onus on individuals.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

First of all, as I understand the Carter decision, two of the things you’re supposed to have in order to be a candidate for MAID are enduring intolerable physical psychological suffering that can’t be addressed under conditions you consider acceptable. So it started off for individuals with a terminal illness.

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Wait, so one key message is that social health is linked to physical and cognitive health?!? And the government can do something about that?!? Those are all things that could dramatically be a major health shock for an individual. Eric 42:13 What do you want the government to do? Alex 14:28 Yeah, yeah.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

was supported by the fossil fuel industry , because it shifted responsibility for change from industry to individuals. So if you look at government websites about heat for example, it’s got a line of buttons across the top with affected populations, outdoor workers, athletes and older people are in there.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

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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FDA Law

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Rescheduling increases the ability to research cannabis to determine the physical and mental impacts of cannabis use. The regulated cannabis marketplace brings in billions of dollars in revenue into state and federal governments, with predictions that cannabis sales will exceed $53 billion by 2027.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Too many people do because it’s really hard to keep their loved ones at home for the cost, the enormous financial, mental and physical strain for the family. Just to let you know, Eric, we have to give the credit to our federal government. Diane: Which too many people do, Malaz. It has multiple prints and updates. Malaz: Correct.

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GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

So take a listen and if you want a deeper dive into some of the references we discuss on the podcast, here is a list: Medscape article on how “ COVID-19 Vaccines Work Better and for Longer Than Expected Across Populations, Including Immunocompromised Individuals”. Stat news article about variants/COVID becoming more predictable. Monica: Yes.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

And so I’m not sure if this is true for Joe or for Brooke, but even before the pandemic in our practice here, we saw somewhere around 40 to 50% of our patients via telemedicine anyway, because we have a catchment area of patients who live very far away, many of whom have a lot of physical disability and other limitations to coming in person.

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GeriPal

APRIL 17, 2025

Now to the federal government that is going way beyond what I think people truly understand. You look at the physical body and you ask yourself, can you afford to lose diversity? So Shalonda Young was the very first black woman to serve as the OMB director in charge of the federal government’s budget. Well played.

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