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Community Integration: Pushing the Boundaries for a Better World

Integrated Care News by CFHA

We offered trauma-informed support and helped newly displaced individuals connect with health and community resources. In addition to a standardized screening, care enhancers who are trusted members of the community could be involved in these discussions and deployed for support.

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) concluded back in 2000 that there is insufficient evidence to recommend for or against routine screening for dementia in older adults. If so, how do we screen and who do we screen? What should we use to screen individuals? Should it?

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Welcome to SRP-RMT – Standardization Comes to Regenerative Medicine Therapies?

FDA Law Blog

These standards would be developed outside the Federal government, leveraging the expertise of the private sector. In short, Voluntary Consensus Standards (VCS) are intended to be exactly what the name conveys – standards that are adopted by consensus and are not mandatory (not legal or regulatory requirements).

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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

They’re due for cervical cancer screening, that they get that if they are due for a lab test, they get that. I know for a fact that the government or legislators looked to us in Permanente. The reception does the same thing, the medical assistant does the same thing. Now you noticed I said everyone but the doctor.

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Where Are All the OTC Rapid Antigen Tests for COVID? FDA’s Role in Blocking These Tests from the American Market

FDA Law Blog

The tests are very accurate in detecting individuals with a relatively high viral load (symptomatic or not). A positive result, however, is treated as a screen. On the minus side, a rapid antigen test may miss an infected individual with a low viral load (e.g., A follow up laboratory?run run molecular diagnostic (RT?

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

GeriPal

Thomas: But the person did screen and used a little bit of the and Social Network Scale and the UCLA Loneliness Scale. Like I said, the patient screened positive for it. I think some of that is from some of my thinking about maybe what I can potentially think about with the individual to support them. Ashwin Kotwal: Oh, wow.

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

GeriPal

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. Eric: Great.