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

Canadian Family Physician

Objective To assist in workforce planning by updating trends in the characteristics of near-retirement comprehensive family physicians (FPs) and their patients since the COVID-19 pandemic. We compared these populations to pre-pandemic analyses (2008, 2013, and 2019). Setting Ontario.

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

GeriPal

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Malaz: I love it.