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Community Integration: Pushing the Boundaries for a Better World

Integrated Care News by CFHA

Sometimes, they push us to cross physical, emotional, or ethical boundaries—to reach those in need or to avoid being complicit through inaction. 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? Cognitive screening.

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Logistics Unwrapped: A Roadmap to Successful FDA Meetings in In-Person and Hybrid Formats

FDA Law Blog

CDRH recently announced its acceptance and hosting of in-person meetings, including hybrid options that allow for both physical and virtual participation. If you are driving, stop at the vehicle screening facility and inform security that you are attending a meeting. Getting to Building 66 Most CDRH meetings occur in Building 66.

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

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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. Things like smoking status, level of physical activity, a variety of other lifestyle and biological risk factors that may be alternative explanations.

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

GeriPal

Ongoing reports from patients about anti-Asian hate experiences Should clinicians screen for Anti-Asian hate? question used to screen for domestic violence. It’s both institutionalized racism where there are policies and practices by corporations, by government that create inequality. Alex 15:37 Yeah. generation.

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

GeriPal

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. Ruth: That’s not prevention, that’s screening. And when I was born, people didn’t live past their sixties.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

In terms of their risk, in terms of how we think of preventive health, as we think of screening, all of those things, I would turn around to the geriatricians and say, “Check your implicit bias. In what moral universe is a federal government deeply subsidizing my housing and not subsidizing that of my patients?