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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

As you can imagine, get referrals from healthcare workers, emergency departments, primary care, cancer care hospital, you know, internal medicine to our service. Government is not the 51st state. And that’s about half of our referrals. CME This episode is not CME eligible.

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

GeriPal

I think to some extent, the county doesn’t necessarily know what they don’t know about geriatrics, just like I don’t necessarily know what I don’t know about the county and local government and national government and state government.

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

GeriPal

Lingsheng (and I) recently published studies on this in JAMA Internal Medicine , and JAGS. It’s both institutionalized racism where there are policies and practices by corporations, by government that create inequality. Proposing the clinicians ask a simple follow up question to the usual “do you feel safe at home?”

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

GeriPal

Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. Just to let you know, Eric, we have to give the credit to our federal government. Our alliance is governed by a steering committee and we go to them and say what are the areas?

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What We Now Know About COVID Prevention and Treatment: A Podcast with Monica Gandhi

GeriPal

NIH study about long COVID published the day before in Annals of Internal Medicine. And their death rate was so high during Omicron because they had distrust to the vaccine and distrust to the government. One is in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Stat news article about variants/COVID becoming more predictable.