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Trends colliding: Aging comprehensive family physicians and the growing complexity of their patients

Canadian Family Physician

We compared these populations to pre-pandemic analyses (2008, 2013, and 2019). An increasing proportion of the workforce is age 65 and older (2008: 10.0%; 2013: 14.4%; 2019: 13.9%; 2022: 15.2%), and correspondingly, an increasing number and proportion of patients are attached to near-retirement FPs.

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

GeriPal

So since 2008, we’ve been providing the service using our foundation money. And those people have a higher, not just dementia, but other multiple chronic conditions. And then they will obviously audit you later on, check all your assumption, make sure you are not frauding the process. Is it any stage of dementia?