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Health-Related Social Needs Increase and Persist following Onset of COVID-19 Pandemic [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Health-related social needs (HRSN), such as housing, food, and transportation, play a major role in overall patient health and well-being. ITS model- proportion of individuals who screened positive for at least one HRSN, aggregated by week. Logistic regression model- binary indicator for a positive screen.

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Maternity Care: Why It’s Important and Where You Can Get It

Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

At Center for Family Medicine , we offer free pregnancy screenings. For example, some women don’t have insurance, and some women don’t have access to transportation. To make our services as accessible as possible, we offer pregnancy screenings that are completely free. Why Is Maternity Care So Important?

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Social Risk Burden and Its Impact on Healthcare Use in IBD

Physician's Weekly

High social risk burden in adults with IBD drives emergency care use and medication gaps—spotlighting the urgent need for social screening in clinical practice. Social risk burden was categorized as none (0/6 domains), mild (1/6), moderate (2/6), and severe (≥3/6). 10.2]) and cost-related medication non-adherence (OR, 11.8 [2.7-52.1]),

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

After discussing screening options for substance use disorder, we go on to talk about both the treatments for it and the issues that arise. So, we are not screening for substance use in cancer care, so we don’t get good estimates among people with cancer, which is really how we would prefer to ask the question. So, I digress.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

Emmy: Because if you’ve got other ways to get things delivered or you have good public transportation or you have a lot of family around, that’s a very different kind of calculus than if you live on your ranch and there’s no way to otherwise get to town, and there’s nobody else around. “How are things going?”

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

GeriPal

And that came down a lot of times to asking the provider whether they felt they met criteria and then also looking to see if they had the financial, like the proper insurance or things like that. Like an AI robot goes in the room with the screen and that links to the human palliative care provider and is also the companion.

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

GeriPal

Suresh was a barge captain, a dangerous and thrilling profession that led him to transport goods across international waters. It was all covered by my mom’s insurance. After learning about his pain, I asked how he spent his days. His face immediately lit up. His eyes glistened as he described the joy he felt at sea.

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